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...crew will engage them in conversation, offer them a drink or something to eat--all designed to lower the travelers' stress level. My stress was so low I decided I had to sleep. I easily dropped off and caught a four-hour nap. The cleverly designed seats have a headrest that bends to form a kind of a pillow: no embarrassing head drops onto your neighbor's shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Really Long Haul | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...been on the plane and seen Cathy excuse herself many times when he was briefed on something above her classification," a Centcom officer says. "It seems very petty." Franks and his wife sit next to each other on his aging 707 command plane--there are four stars on his headrest and four hearts on hers. "It's cute," says a fellow passenger. "When she doesn't travel, he likes to leave that seat empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General: Straight Shooter | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...window as the car careered along the footpath and crashed into a concrete wall at full speed. Jaffa's lifeless body was later pulled from the wreckage. Blood and brain matter covered the 4x4's dashboard. White tufts of padding poked through holes in the Qadir's passenger seat headrest. Black prayer beads were coiled on a console soaking in blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Killing in Kabul | 7/6/2002 | See Source »

...Most often he headed up to the house his mother had left him on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., a place so special, so private, the houses far back from the road, the beaches so peaceful. Until last Saturday afternoon, when the luggage, a woman's compact, a headrest, began washing up on that shore, turning a wedding day into a wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Was America's Prince... | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Kessler also details another elaborate plan, in which high-tech devices were planted in the headrests of KGB cars. These would trigger sensors at specific intersections in Washington, allowing the bureau to keep track of KGB movements without recourse to machines that required replacement tapes or batteries. One car did not have a headrest, so agents planted the device in the glove compartment. When the car was brought in for a regular inspection, KGB mechanics found the bug and quickly inspected other vehicles for similar spy paraphernalia. By then the FBI had infiltrated 20 cars. The KGB removed every single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun and Games with the KGB | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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