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...Price? Just $3.50. The picture? Easy Rider. The next morning, nine passengers shuttled up the motorway to Luton airport inside a bright orange bus with a cracked windscreen and grinding brakes. A German and a Canadian seated to my right griped about paying $10 after missing the easyBus Holy Grail - the $2 starting price. Having paid $7.50, I kept quiet. "It changes your habits," says Nicolas Legrand, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer from Nice, aboard our Boeing 737-700 easyJet flight from Luton to Nice. "It's possible to get a flight for a few quid." When chewing over...
...sight of it was enough to make one outdoorsman cry and Uncle Sam shell out $10 million to protect its habitat. Dubbed the Holy Grail of bird watching, the ivory-billed woodpecker was for decades thought to be extinct, but a team of scientists last week reported seven confirmed sightings within the past 15 months in Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers warned, however, that "we cannot rule out the possibility that all of our fleeting encounters involved the same bird." Meanwhile, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton urged bird watchers not to flock to the refuge and "love...
...with a bale of hay just as a rousing, Fiddler on the Roof-style chorus line points and shouts, "Hey!" Some gags--the choleric knight who gets his arms and legs cut off--worked better onscreen. But Idle's runaway hit musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a rowdy, anything-goes spirit as well as two memorable numbers: You Won't Succeed on Broadway ("if you don't have any Jews") and the infectious Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. You have to be a Python maniac to place this genial mishmash...
...organization of persons with disabilities who oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, maintains that the starvation and dehydration of Terri Schiavo will put the lives of thousands of severely disabled children and adults at risk. (The organization takes its name from the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a plague victim not dying fast enough is hit over the head and carted away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die” movement, including the fact that as early as 1988, Jack...
Yahoo! is not the only engine searching for the content holy grail. The other major Internet companies--Google, AOL and MSN--all have their own strategies to capture more eyeballs for their sites. AOL (which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner) has worked with shows like Big Brother and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on advertising cross-promotions and last month announced it was talking to TV production houses about developing its own online content. Microsoft, though slower to embrace Hollywood, is putting its Encarta encyclopedia on its search site. Even Google, which says it is committed...