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Nowhere are the symptoms of this disease more exposed than in the elevator. In this most unfortunate of social mini-interactions, there are a number of methods employed to cope with the threat of actually having to chat with a fellow rider...
Ever since I was a baby, I’ve had a reputation for being a mini-sociologist who loves to people-watch...
...niche carriers are also nimbler. When US Airways made the surprising move after 9/11 to shut down MetroJet, its low-cost subsidiary based at Baltimore/Washington International Airport, AirTran, with headquarters in Orlando, Fla., moved into that airport within weeks. It has now built a successful mini-hub there, with 22 flights a day. The low fares have been a boon to these once obscure airports: Midway Airport in Chicago--which is served by AirTran, ATA, Frontier and Southwest--now offers 22% of all U.S. flights from Chicago, up from 14% in 1997. And while many major carriers have cut flights...
...they can screw up the power steering or transmission. Hence the industry's slow shift to 17-in. rims. Over the past two years, shipments to automakers of 17-in. tires have risen 9%, while shipments of 15-inchers have fallen nearly 12%. Even BMW's pint-size Mini Cooper comes with optional 17-in. wheels...
...from the hyper-realistic computer graphics employed in Final Flight of the Osiris, to the dreamy, hand-drawn doodles of Kid's Story. Each short expands the Matrix universe in ways that the plot-bound live-action films could not. The Wachowski-written Second Renaissance, Parts 1 and 2, mini-epics in their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard of his own pride). The taut Program is set in a simulacrum of feudal Japan; Detective Story...