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...USAirways Broke new ground last week by starting to charge for all beverages: $2 for a soft drink (or even a bottle of water); $1 for coffee or tea. Checked bags cost $15 and $25; flight changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Fees: Who's the Stingiest? | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

JetBlue Airways hopes to inject a little bit of the lost luxury back into air travel - if not on board (the airline announced on Aug. 4 that it would begin charging $7 to buy in-flight blankets and pillows), then on the ground. This September, the airline will open the doors to its new $743 million, 635,000-square-foot ultramodern terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, whose facilities - including expanded security areas, high-end dining, boutique shopping and free WiFi - the airline hopes, will upgrade and expedite passengers' pre-flight experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where JetBlue Put Its Millions | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...becoming more blurred," De Klerk told the Cape Town Press Club in June. The "rights and values" which he and Mandela enshrined in the country's 1994 constitution, "are under severe pressure," he said. It says something for how far the ANC has fallen from the moral high ground that in today's South Africa, a former apartheid ruler can re-invent himself as a defender of the public interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South African Leader Back in Court | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...Ticket sales for home games, which means that stadium size matters: it is no coincidence that Manchester United, which seats 76,000 at its Old Trafford ground, is the richest of the English clubs - Liverpool's Anfield stadium holds only 45,000, by comparison, which at ticket prices averaging around $80 means that United generates as much as $50 million more than Liverpool in annual ticket sales. High rollers like Real Madrid and A.C. Milan, not surprisingly, play in stadiums that hold upwards of 80,000 fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer's Billion-Dollar Players | 8/3/2008 | See Source »

...first stop on July 30, however, is Kangerlussuaq, the area's main airport and a staging ground for the NEEM project. Kangerlussuaq lies so far north that the sun never really sets in the summer, as I discover during a somewhat sleepless night. And the climate here is anything but Arctic. In the heat of the sun, temperatures exceed 70?F, and I shed layers of fleece as I take a jet-lagged walk around town. Not that there's anything to see: Kangerlussuaq didn't really exist until the Americans began using it as an air base in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Greenland, a Memoir of the Earth | 8/2/2008 | See Source »

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