Word: mins
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...technical rehearsals this week, the Shuttle Launch Experience begins with riders climbing an authentic looking gantry into a white "clean room" to board a model of a crew pod in the shuttle's payload bay. A real 8.5 min. vertical launch into orbit reaching a speed of 17,500 mph is compressed into a 5 min. jowl-rattling experience, including the key launch milestones of solid rocket-booster separation, main engine cut off and the external tank separation...
...min. presentation hosted by DreamWorks ani-maven Jeffrey Katzenberg, Seinfeld related the movie's origins. He and his wife went to dinner with Steven Spielberg (another DreamWorks boss) and his wife. "I'm nervous," Seinfeld said, "because even though I'm Jerry Seinfeld, he's Steven Spielberg." When the chat rate slowed down, Seinfeld mentioned an idea - really, just a joke - for an animated film: a movie about bees called Bee Movie. A few months later, Seinfeld was on the DreamWorks campus, being shown how CGI films were made. And here he was, Seinfeld said, "four years later, because...
...have to circle the airport because of congestion on the ground. Thanks to India's economic prosperity and the booming growth of its airline industry, more Indians are flying today than ever. But they are enjoying it less, because more than half of all domestic flights are delayed 30 min. or more. "We needed this boom because people need to travel and we need choice," Mehta says. "But in some ways [air travel] has actually become more frustrating...
...carriers such as low-cost upstarts Air Deccan, IndiGo, GoAir and SpiceJet have added so many flights--even though there's no place to land them--that profit-destroying fare wars have broken out. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a 45-min. flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices, and you've got a recipe for red ink. Indian airlines lost some $500 million last year, after a couple of years of robust profit growth...
...COMPETITIONS 1,000 Length, in meters, of a tightrope-billed as the longest ever-strung across Seoul's Han River, as part of what organizers called the world's first international high-wire competition 11 min. 22 sec. Time it took winner Abudusataer Wujiabudula, an ethnic Uighur from China, to cross the tightrope, earning him a prize...