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...finally clawed my way to the top of the list,” she says. But she bought a round-trip plane ticket, knowing she had not yet secured the spot...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting Fired Up Not for Faint of Hose | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...separate search engines for vacation packages and cruises. You can also try newcomer Kayak.com, which promises to scour more than 100 websites to find the best deals on airfare and hotel rooms-but only SideStep includes Orbitz.com listings in its search results. If you're picky about your plane seat assignment, Seat Guru provides detailed information (material, amount of legroom, location of video monitors and exit rows, whether there's a power port for your laptop nearby, etc.) by airline and type of aircraft. Mouse over icons on seating charts to get the lay of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 50 Coolest Websites 2005: Shopping | 6/22/2005 | See Source »

...miles from Philadelphia and uncovered the three bodies. Each man had been shot to death with a .38-caliber weapon; Chaney had been beaten so horribly that a pathologist who performed an autopsy said he had never seen such injuries except in a highspeed auto accident or a plane crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: A Crime Called Conspiracy | 6/22/2005 | See Source »

...crew of a U.S. P-3C Orion antisubmarine plane circling overhead, substantial damage was clearly visible. The sub was venting smoke from a gaping hole behind its sail, or vertical superstructure, where a hatch covering one of the 16 missile-launching tubes had been located. Said Defense Department Spokesman Commander Robert Prucha after examining photos: "The hatch was peeled back like a sardine can." But when the nearby U.S. oceangoing tug Powhatan offered assistance, the sub declined, requesting that the tug "stand clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Scary Accident at Sea | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

DIED. Robert Six, 79, high-flying founder of Continental Airlines who bought into a three-plane mail service in 1936 and built it into a major carrier, which, in the early '70s, squeezed out the industry's highest revenues per employee; in Beverly Hills. One of the last scarf-and-goggles airline pioneers, he introduced discount fares in 1962, predicted that deregulation would mean the end of good service and watched Continental decline until it was taken over by Texas Air shortly after his retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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