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Fortunately, he also happens to be a licensed pilot, which eases his effort to keep a tight schedule of gigs while watching over his sprawling empire. Every Thursday he flies 2 1/2 hours in his Beech C55 Baron from Branson to his home in Texas to spend the weekend with his second wife Vivian and to play golf with their son Greg. He has three grown children from his first marriage and four grandchildren...
...work--see Curb Your Enthusiasm--with a good, mature cast. Coupling's, like so many post-Friends ensembles, is just smirky thirtysomething kids with $100 haircuts. The show does have a touch for madcap-farce plots based on lies and miscommunications, even if they're a bit farfetched. (The pilot, for instance, requires that you believe the stalls in a women's bathroom are soundproof.) At times you see, as on a disappointing date, the sophisticated adult Coupling could have become. Instead, it sidles up to us in its pleated Dockers, asking lamely, "Do you come here often...
...gasoline at the pump. At least 6 million people have used Speedpass since its 1997 introduction. But the technology spread far beyond the pump this year after all three major card companies--Amex, Visa and MasterCard--endorsed interoperability standards for RFID payments. Besides the Amex pilot, there have been trials by MasterCard (for its PayPass card in Orlando, Fla.) and Visa (which plans to use RFID-ready phones in Asia). Someday you will stroll down grocery aisles with a PC tablet that uses RFID technology to find products, place deli orders in advance and automatically ring up sales...
When Lauren McCollum took up flying again last spring, after a 15-year break, she wanted a plane that she could take far and fast. But as a long-lapsed pilot, the Los Angeles property developer did not want an aircraft that would intimidate her. Her flight instructor suggested an airplane that McCollum hadn't even heard of. One demonstration flight later, she was hooked on a Cirrus SR22, a sleek and powerful four-seater whose designers are trying to reinvent the small plane, not to mention the small-plane industry. "I'm a techno-nerd," says McCollum, "and when...
...sights on the granddaddy of airplane builders, the venerable 76-year-old Cessna Aircraft Co. of Wichita, Kans. The Textron subsidiary has sold more than 23,000 of its Skylane 182s, and the distinctive, high-wing, small-propeller planes are so ubiquitous that there probably isn't a pilot who hasn't flown a Cessna at least once...