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That said, Dunkelberger's Executive Platinum status with American is pretty sweet: it offers upgrades, lounge access and a 100% flight mileage bonus (meaning he doubles his miles with each trip), to name a few benefits. But he must also hit certain mileage marks each calendar-year or else lose his privileges. (See how to get double air and double rail miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in the Air Fantasies: What Does 10 Million Miles Get You? | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...flight to Des Moines or Omaha, I'll take a bus before I cross the mark on one of those flights. It's going to be an international flight, probably Europe with my girlfriend. I'm going to plot it out exactly and know when I hit it. And hell yeah, there is going to be champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in the Air Fantasies: What Does 10 Million Miles Get You? | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Since the pandemic began last spring, children have been the hardest hit by H1N1. So far, youngsters have the highest infection, hospitalization and death rates from the pandemic influenza than any other age group, and health officials have targeted those between six months and 24 years old as a priority group for vaccination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will One Dose of H1N1 Vaccine Be Enough for Kids? | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...total U.S. population, the number of unemployed is divided by the size of the labor force (employed plus unemployed), and there's your rate. Measured that way, unemployment still isn't as bad as it was at the lowest point of the 1981-82 recession, when it hit 10.8%. And it's nowhere near what it was in 1933, when the rate peaked somewhere around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Jobless Rate | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...most egregious example of secularization. (Villains include the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which christened its year-end party "A Celebration of Holiday Traditions.") But it was really during this decade that the Yule Wars caught fire. Fox News host John Gibson's book The War on Christmas hit best-seller lists in 2005, the same year his colleague Bill O'Reilly called moves to tone down the holidays the first steps on a slippery slope toward "legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage." In 2006 Chicago Tribune poll, 68% of respondents agreed that the holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: The War on Christmas | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

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