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...Calif., on Dec. 7. Together, they will carry two pilots and six passengers to an altitude of 70 miles - the edge of space. Passengers will enjoy five minutes of eerie silence and weightlessness (floating somersaults are allowed) and 1,000-mile views in all directions before a half-hour glide back to earth. Tickets cost $200,000, and 300 people have already signed...
...Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson William Langewiesche Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 193 pages...
...which Sullenberger guided safely into the water after the Airbus 320 struck a flock of geese near LaGuardia Airport and lost all power. A Vanity Fair correspondent and former professional pilot, Langewiesche has written the most detailed account yet of the short flight, Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson. He spoke with TIME about the near disaster, the media's role in shaping perceptions of the incident and the forgotten star of the fateful flight...
...feel like at our worst: slogging through a winter workday, standing in a long line at airport security, waking up with a hangover. Vampires speak to the romantic in us, to our need for human contact, teeth to neck. They embody everything erotic about the predatory impulse. Vampires glide through the night and, instead of breaking down your door like an angry zombie mob, they glide into your bedroom for a late-night tryst. They don't rip a victim's limbs off; they leave two decorous little puncture marks on the neck or breast. But once they get into...
...television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and the heavy rotation that the song's video enjoyed on MTV injected it into America's pop-cultural consciousness. The moonwalk is so fluid, so effortless - and yet when amateurs slip on some old gym socks and try to glide across a kitchen floor, it always turns out horribly. How exactly do you moonwalk? TIME finds out. (See the top 10 Michael Jackson moments...