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Their next collaboration could be an airport--Rockwell's itching to design one. He just discovered that his proposal for the new Singapore airport won't fly. It had aquariums at the curb to remind people of sea level and a huge indoor aviary at the departure gate to evoke the wonder of flight. He has also been inundated with offers to design more Broadway-show sets, which he's less eager to do. He's looking for something new: opera, maybe...
...cell phones, under pressure from parents who want to be able to reach their kids at any time. We have banned coolers from stadiums. Look around any city when a plane flies low, and you can see people pivot to the landmarks. The Empire State, the Golden Gate--is it still there...
...checks to see if seat belts are fastened, she now walks aft to forward because "I can see better what people are doing with their hands." She scrutinizes passengers more closely. On an international flight, a man who spoke no English got up before the plane taxied into the gate, and started walking into the business-class section. "He was coming right at me," says Jones. Crew members made him sit down, but Jones, fearing a bomb, went further and--on her own--ordered a full aircraft interior search after passengers disembarked. "Now I'm more involved in the situation...
...Corporate luminaries like Smith are not accustomed to having their parties gate-crashed by irate hecklers. But in South Korea, the incident was just one of many nose thumbings and eye gougings GM has endured on its way to acquiring South Korea's third largest automaker. After nearly three years of courting Daewoo, GM and its partners?including Suzuki Motor Corp. of Japan?agreed to pay $400 million in cash for a majority stake in the broken-down carmaker. GM's gamble is that it can radically rebuild the busted company, transforming it into a low-cost producer of cheap...
UNINVITED GUESTS Gate-crashing a wedding is not usually the best way for travelers to endear themselves to the locals, but in Coorg, you don't need to be on the guest list to attend. "Gate-crashing? No!" says Pachi Chengappa, who prepares splendid meals for tourists at her estate. "Coorgs love to entertain outsiders." Turn up at the door of the wedding hall, and you will be invited in for the drinking and dancing. The local Kodava people are a distinct ethnic group in southern India, and though descended from a warrior clan, they are anything but hostile...