Word: plane
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...Turner was on a plane headed for New York City to address a U.N. Association dinner last week when he decided to give away $1 billion. Looking over statements prepared by his financial advisers, he noticed that his net worth had shot up from $2.2 billion to $3.2 billion between the beginning of the year and Aug. 31, largely on the strength of a 50% rise in Time Warner stock. "Hey, not bad," Turner recalls thinking at the time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane...
Over 200 passengers are feared dead in Indonesia's worst plane crash (Reuters), which may have been caused by the forest-fire smoke blanketing Southeast Asia (TIME Daily...
...they still plan to release the film at some future date. Boy, is it hard to imagine how. No doubt there are already Diana one-liners circulating among stockbrokers or whoever it is that originates the jokes that instantly crop up in the wake of celebrity deaths and big plane crashes; but it will be a while before the general public, rubbed raw by the funeral, is ready to have a laugh anywhere near the late Princess of Wales...
...generations. To be sure, a century of medical progress has enabled Americans to live longer on average and enjoy greater health and prosperity. But even more significant, the traditional demarcation points between youth and age are starting to blur. Amid images of George Bush parachuting out of a plane at 72 and baby boomers blowing out the candles on their 50th-birthday cakes, a growing number of citizens (call them seniors at your own risk) are radically redefining what it means...
Take Mary Andes, 69, a former schoolteacher in Virginia, Maryland and Guam with a lifelong love of flying, who earned her pilot's license in 1981. Today Andes hops around the Mariana Islands in the Pacific at the controls of a Cherokee-6 commuter plane for Guam-based Freedom Air. Then there is June Bond, 72, a retired music teacher and an experienced bookkeeper who puts in 40-hour weeks in the accounting department of the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, Calif. "I want to be part of the world and not part of some pity party," Bond says...