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...much for the romance of air travel. "We had no legroom, everyone was grum-py and the air stewardess was unfriendly," says Patrick Schepers, 13, of Peer, Belgium, after a recent long-haul flight. "It's the cocktail of ingredients," says David Dison, 46, a South African lawyer and frequent traveler. "The cabin pressure, the lack of legroom, the lack of air." But airlines' attempts to share blame with passengers may hold some water. Ishii says she knows she should have walked around, but stayed in her seat so as not to disturb her husband and his neighbor. And some...
...that they control the Senate, Democrats have more opportunities to make that case before the public. "Republicans know it's coming," says the House Democratic aide. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad plans to haul White House budget director Mitch Daniels Jr. before his panel on Thursday and demand that he explain how W. is going to "get us out of this fix," says a Conrad aide. "We'll drive home the point that we warned that this tax cut was too big. But they rushed it through even though the numbers didn...
...years banks and other financial outfits have made bundles of money selling the vital statistics they've collected from you--data known legally as "nonpublic personal information"--to direct-marketers and other sales organizations. That haul includes your name, address, Social Security number and financial history--basically all the information about you that can't be gleaned from public sources...
...waterways in a constant cycle of to and fro, back and forth. At the mouth of the Karnaphuli river lies Bangladesh's main port. The country's second city, Chittagong has been a center of trade and transport for 2,000 years. Porters lean almost prone as they haul carts piled 4 m high along the quay. Stroll the boulevards of decaying colonial storefronts and the pungent waterfront in the old city to trace the port's Portuguese and British history. For a bed, try the Hotel Agrabad, the city's best at around $100 a double. Call...
...Many pros wouldn't go near Erik's team, fearing they might have to haul the blind guy down. "Everyone was saying Erik was gonna have an epic," says Charley Mace, a member of the film crew. (Epic is Everest slang for disaster.) Another climber planned to stay close, boasting that he would "get the first picture of the dead blind...