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Passengers wringing their hands over delayed flights and lost baggage aren't the only problem plaguing airlines. A near collision on the tarmac at Dallas-Fort Worth airport on April 6 punctuated a six-month period that included 15 other runway "incursions" - a spike from eight during the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Traffic Controller Sounds Alarm | 4/26/2008 | See Source »

The food world must have had mad scientists before--whoever decided to bring fire inside the house, the guy who thought it would be a good idea to yank on a cow's udder and drink whatever came out--but none of them could have played the part better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Scientist in the Kitchen | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Did OSAMA BIN LADEN really watch MacGyver, rock to Van Halen and lust after WHITNEY HOUSTON?  Those are some of the claims made in an autobiography -- published in February but overlooked until Harper's printed excerpts last week by Sudanese born novelist Kola Boof, who says she was bin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 4, 2006 | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

"They managed to start a fire, to keep warm and to keep the polar bears away ... It was a bit like MacGyver."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Aug. 29, 2005 | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

Alton Brown is interested in how food works, from the chemistry of cured salmon (it involves water-soluble proteins) to the physics of pressure cookers (it involves, um, pressure). Even if you never have to improvise a fish smoker out of a cardboard box, you will enjoy watching him do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: 6 Shows Worth Their Salt | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

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