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...stone cold, silently holding back. "He understands stillness, which is a rare trait in an age of big performances," says McG, who directed Fox in the recent football tearjerker We Are Marshall, which is based on the real-life story of a college team killed in a plane crash in 1970. And yes, when the two first met to talk about the project, the director says, Fox cried...
...movie--for the last few episodes of Lost last season.) He also had to convince Red Dawson, the coach he played in We Are Marshall, who was deeply suspicious of the film, to fly out to Hawaii, where Lost is shot, and talk about the plane crash, something Dawson has rarely done in 36 years. "It was a little awkward for an hour or two," Dawson says. "But he's from a small town, and I grew up in Valdosta, Ga. We hit it off real well...
That's a kind of heroism I can't really fathom. I would have been on the first plane...
...industry has improved efficiency over the past 40 years, with technological upgrades more than doubling efficiency. There are tweaks in aircraft operations that could nip carbon emissions even further. Virgin Atlantic airlines tycoon Richard Branson, who last year pledged $3 billion in the fight against climate change, advocates having planes towed on the ground rather than taxiing, which he has said could cut a yet unspecified portion of fuel on long flights. Emissions trading for the air industry could help as well, with airlines given carbon caps and then being required to purchase credits from other industries if they exceed...
...chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Edwin Gray once chartered a plane to see his dying father when no commercial flights were available. Cost: nearly $14,000. His wife Monique spent close to $12,000 on air travel, hotel rooms and meals while accompanying Gray on business trips. The problem: these bills were paid with industry funds provided by the twelve regional banks of the FHLB system. Last week Gray said he had personally repaid the full...