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...many as 800 passengers in full sardine-can configuration, although Air France has mercifully limited the crowd to 535 in first, business and coach classes. In preparation for its entry into service in 2007, airports widened runways and hardened taxiways. Its catering trucks rise two stories off the ground to reach the galleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies? | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...strangest thing about these animals isn't their names, though; it's the fact that many of them weren't flat to the ground, like modern crocs, but stood upright and walked on their legs, like modern mammals. "We have an idea of what a crocodile should be and what a mammal should be," says Sereno, "but you have to break down these categories to see what was going on in Africa back then." BoarCroc, for example, was 20 ft. long and had three rows of fangs, like a boar from hell, which made it what Sereno calls a "dinosaur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super-Crocodiles May Have Dined on Dinosaurs | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...Vancouver shooting New Moon, I tried something," Pattinson says. "It's the only city in the world where hoods are not fashionable. If you're wearing a hood, you're going to mug people. So I wore a hood, and then I'd sort of spit on the ground a little bit and do a little bit of shaking around as you're walking. Everyone moved to the other side of the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Twilight in America: The Vampire Saga | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

What goes through your mind midflip in the air, with people watching and your body dangerously high above ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tony Hawk | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...runners? No problem for the Crimson women. But the men’s squad may have some ground to make...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Hampered By Illness, Injury | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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