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Flying is in Jones' blood. Her great-grandfather was a test pilot. A picture of her mother in a solo glider hangs over the mantel in her home in Tampa, Fla. Jones, 40, began working for American in 1985. "I love airports, the excitement, the electricity, people going places," she says. "I would go to the airport even before I had a job and just hang out. I like the smell of jet fuel." But after Sept. 11, Jones started thinking about another career. She began taking college courses with the idea of getting her degree and becoming a paralegal...
...chair, along with a large bronze statue of Pegasus, the centerpiece of the Castle's mantel, a nude-centerfold of Henry A. Kissinger '50, jester costumes, and numerous crimson parodies all disappeared mysteriously from the Lampoon building two days later...
...STARTED Aging baby boomers weren't satisfied with the garden-variety box of ashes on the mantel...
Searching for a meaningful send-off to the hereafter? People used to be content to keep a loved one's ashes on the family mantel. Or scatter them at sea. But a lot of baby boomers are demanding something more elaborate for themselves and their dearly departed. In Florida, retired golfers are having their cremated remains scattered on putting greens. Canuck's Sportsman's Memorials Inc., based in Des Moines, Iowa, packs the ashes of duck- and pheasant-hunting enthusiasts into shotgun shells. They are later fired into the air during a ceremony in the woods for family and friends...
...genial, witty, accomplished Tom Hanks?the anti-Crowe. He carried the desert-island drama Cast Away alone on his sunburned shoulders. And he would win, if winning hadn't become such a habit for him (two Oscars and four nominations in seven years). Tom must be running out of mantel space. Will the Academy take a vacation from Hanks, and take a fling with the Wild Man from New Zealand...