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...excited about flying these days. Hard, that is, unless you've just boarded the Airbus A300 owned by former Indian Airlines engineer B.C. Gupta. Take, for example, the safety demonstration. After asking for a volunteer from the 120 or so kids crammed, some two to a seat, in the plane's economy-class cabin, flight attendant Ridhi Sehgal explains how the oxygen masks work. A plastic deck chair appears and Sehgal helps the volunteer, a worried-looking boy of 7, up onto it so that the other passengers can see him. "This is just for show," Sehgal explains...
...needn't worry too much. The Airbus is not flying over water today. It isn't going anywhere. Jammed into a suburban backyard near Indira Gandhi International Airport, its nose and tail hanging over the property's walls and one wing almost nudging the front gate, the plane offers the adventure of air travel without the cost - or even the travel. Its passengers, most of whom have never been on a plane before, pay up to $4 each to join the jet set for a couple hours. India's skies may be busier than ever these days - new airlines, including...
...Sacrificers for Benazir" formed a human security cordon. The Suicide Sacrificers took their volunteer security jobs seriously. "Benazir is the daughter of our great leader [PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto], and he was executed by the army," said 20-year-old student Sheikh Ahad as he waited for her plane to touch down. "Her brothers have been killed. She has sacrificed her family for Pakistan, and now she is sacrificing her own self for the poor of this country. It is only right that we are willing to do the same...
...Harvard’s autocracy has got you down, feel free to leave. But if you take the T to MIT you’ll find another autocracy. And another if you head down the Mass Pike to New Haven. And if you take a plane over to Oxford, the birthplace of the university system, you won’t find anything more democratic there either. This—college education—is what autocracy looks like, and there’s nothing wrong with that...
Strategists, however, are skeptical as to whether she can pull off a comeback. One indication of how she will do at the polls will be the number of people who line the streets when her plane lands in the Sind capital of Karachi. Millions cheered her return to Pakistan in 1986, after nearly a decade of martial rule. Two years later, she led the opposition coalition to victory in democratic elections. Party leaders say this time, they will be happy if 200,000 people show up to guide her path to Larkana, where she will once again try to pick...