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...JetBlue, however, insists it's looking long-term. The airline acknowledges that the pass could cut into profits. "That's a possibility," says company spokesman Bryan Baldwin. "But I think we've already seen the upside. The buzz and excitement we've created have far exceeded our expectations. We look at it as just more than dollars and cents." For example, customers are flocking to the JetBlue route map: hits jumped 700% after the promotion was announced, on Aug. 12. Even flyers who ultimately passed on the offer became more familiar with JetBlue. "People are on the website, sitting around...
...line SS and its V-8. From its inception, in 1967, the Camaro was an affordable sports-muscle car, the brawny response to Ford's revolutionary Mustang. Ford's car was stylish, even cute. Women bought it. But the Camaro had that bad-boy look, and the interior was pretty basic. To many of its buyers, the Camaro was a platform, a sleek sled on which to load one of those muscle engines that GM used to produce by the jillions...
...with so much lying, your research suggests, is that we are all essentially dupes. Why do we believe so many lies? This is what I call the liar's advantage. We are not very good at detecting deception in other people. When we are trying to detect honesty, we look at the wrong kinds of nonverbal behaviors, and we misinterpret them. The problem is that there is no direct correlation between someone's nonverbal behavior and their honesty. "Shiftiness" could also be the result of being nervous, angry, distracted or sad. Even trained interrogators [aren't] able to detect deception...
...make the assumption that because it often makes social interactions go more smoothly, lying is O.K. But there is a cost to even seemingly benign lies. If people are always telling you that you look terrific and you did a great job on that presentation, there's no way to have an accurate understanding of yourself. Lies put a smudge on an interaction, and if it's easy to lie to people in minor ways, it becomes easier to lie in bigger ways...
...suddenness of the warlord's reappearance. As his militiamen kept guard, townspeople expressed their enthusiasm for Dostum's return. "Our homes are safe because of the general," says Sharif Qaridyar, the manager of a busy ice cream parlor. "People in the south who say bad things against him should look at where they live." A laminated poster of the general in the mountains on a white horse hung on the wall behind Qaridyar. Asked whether, if Dostum requested it, he would switch sides and vote for Karzai's opponent Abdullah Abdullah, Babak Khan, a butcher across town, replied: "Anything...