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...statistics would indicate. His greatest effort came in the waning minutes with Harvard trying to find the equalizer. Dartmouth lined up a free kick outside the 18-yard box that looked destined for the upper corner the moment it was struck. Just inches before the ball crossed the goal plane, Hahn leaped across the net and punched the shot over the crossbar to keep the game within one. “Another great game,” Hoff said of Hahn’s performance. “He really gave us a chance—that one save...
...guided tours soon after he landed his job at Indian Airlines. "The people from my village thought I was a very big man and could show them the aircraft," he says. "But due to security I could not." In 2003, he bought a 20-year-old Indian Airlines plane "that had met with a small ground incident," cut it into parts and reassembled it in Dwarka, a fast-growing neighborhood of laundry-draped balconies, weed-infested sidewalks and burgeoning middle-class aspirations. Because space is limited, the plane has been cut down to about two-thirds of its normal length...
...During the week, Gupta uses the plane to train engineering students and flight attendants. On weekends, under the billing Aeroplanet, it is open to the public and school groups. Poor villagers and students attending government schools can visit for free. "Passengers" check in, receive boarding passes and climb a steep metal staircase to enter the plane. Flight attendants then run them through the safety procedures (schoolchildren get the extended lesson), serve them snacks and cold drinks and answer questions about how an aircraft works. (One pupil recently asked if there was a horn to tell the other planes...
...Delhi, says they also hope to show people who might fly in the future how it's done. "We want to orient them about aviation manners," she says. "People have money but they do not know how to behave. We want to acquaint them with the cost of a plane, the safety aspects, how to treat the hostesses." Still, for many passengers the experience is mainly about letting dreams take wing. The weathered Airbus is "beautiful to sit in," says local resident Anisha Khan, who recently took a few hours out from caring for her three children to take...
...look of an overage college student, he's enjoying a cigarette in a circle of warm spring sunshine that has managed to find a hole in the Manhattan skyline. But he really should be off his feet. A few days earlier, in the rush to catch a plane to New York City, Stoppard stubbed his toe hard in his London apartment. He has just come back from the doctor, who told him the toe is broken and ordered him to stay off it as much as possible--after which, Stoppard walked 13 blocks to the theater...