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...Onboard my Concorde was everyone from a grandmother who spent most of her life savings on the multi-thousand dollar ticket to ride this unique plane from Heathrow to Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. to a Baltimore banker who was on his seventh Concorde flight and just wanted to get home faster than taking the traditional flight to New York. There was a corporate pilot who paid $ 9 for his ticket because his brother used frequent flier miles to pay the bulk of the fare. There was acrobatic flying champion David Martin and his wife who was probably secretly wishing...
...common purpose pulled people together. If you didn't know your seatmate when you got on, you did by the time we hit 10,000 feet. The big distinction: Nobody was there because they had to be - no road warriors, no disgruntled passengers. The mood - remember this is onboard an airplane - was festive and lighthearted and even joyful. Some people couldn't believe they'd made it on. In the back cabin, a young man proposed to a woman (she accepted...
...first elegant pairing of Palm PDA and cell phone. Its eagerly awaited follow-up, the Treo 600, keeps up the family name with a built-in camera, a memory-card slot and a much brighter screen. Inside, amenities include an updated Palm OS, 32-MB of onboard memory and a processor four times as fast as the Treo 300's. Of course, you'll still have to contend with the cramped little keyboard. Expect the phone to sell for around $550 in mid-October; Sprint PCS will be the first to offer service. GSM versions offered by Cingular...
...ever want to be out of reach, this is your phone. The N-Gage ($299) combines crisp color graphics with a GSM mobile phone for worldwide reception. Game titles are stored on MMC flash-memory cards, which can also be used to load MP3 tracks into the onboard RealOne player. The first games to hit the market will include Tony Hawk (Activision), Lara Croft (Eidos) and lots of furry critters from Sega...
...ship acknowledge the final product will look and feel essentially the same. Crews of at least six, optimally seven, will be needed to fully staff the ISS, and while the old Apollos never carried more than three astronauts, they were capable of carrying as many as six. Since the onboard electronic systems would take up much less space today than they did nearly 40 years ago, seven may be possible...