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ARRIVAL TIME IS MONEY Amid last year's record flight delays, biztravel.com began compensating customers for jet lag on six airlines. The payout policy--$100 for 30-min. delays, $200 for an hour and a full refund after two--boosted sales 50%. But playing airline roulette has cost the site $1.7 million since May, so Biztravel recently shrank tardiness refunds 75%. (A $100 max is better than nothing.) Another plus? Automatic rebooking on cheaper flights so you can pocket the difference...
...reasons the Japanese send e-mail on i-mode instead of simply calling their friends. DoCoMo charges i-mode users according to the amount of data they receive or send, not the amount of time they are online. One message with 50 characters costs 1 yen. A 1-min. phone call? Twenty...
...Bial's exam, the Bial-Dale College Adaptability Index, has been nicknamed the Lego Test for a 10-min. portion that asks small groups of students to reproduce a relatively complicated Lego robot. One at a time, students are allowed to go and look at the structure, which is placed in another room, but they can't take notes. In another tested activity, students lead a group discussion on a topic drawn from an envelope. In both cases, observers are watching to see who takes initiative, who collaborates well and who is persistent...
...godfather is coy about Gangstergate and his own political connections, although he says he has received requests to "help out" in this year's presidential race. Politicians, he says with disgust, "use you and then get rid of you." Mobster Ahn Sang Min says he, too, has been approached by politicians seeking to fix the December election. Ahn, more menacing than dapper in olive sports jacket, black turtleneck and white slip-ons, is best known for ordering three murders?the last one while in prison. (He says he's now counseling young people.) Gangstergate? "They can't touch...
...climbs up to stand on Yen's shoulders; finally they pole-vault to safety as Yam falls below to be impaled and roasted. (Rule No. 1: at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely to catch on fire.) Piling impossible climax on incredible crescendo, the 5-min. scene plays like a war of the titans in a child's playground of Hell...