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There needed to??be??a??monster. That, in a nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain...
...that progresses from the Mississippi's snow-covered northern reaches to the Delta's squalor. But Sleeping by the Mississippi is less about the river than the spirit of wandering. This is classic American road-trip photography that captures the tender frailties of ordinary people like Charles, a model-plane buff in Vasa, Minnesota. Selections from the exhibition will move to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in March, joining some of Soth's other recent work. Wherever you can see them, his photos aren't to be missed...
...sailors and pilots are trying as best they can to coordinate with private groups to set up a smooth supply line. A host of aid organizations flies in supplies on U.S. C130 cargo planes to the tiny runway of the airport at Banda Aceh. Once unloaded, the planes must take off immediately to clear space for the next plane. The Seahawks, meanwhile, are landing on a converted football field a few hundred yards away, and the pilots are managing the transfer of supplies from the C130s to the helicopters. "It was like the Wild West down there when we first...
After a tense night in the villa, with family members sleeping in shifts to watch for aftershocks, Chen, her parents and brother took a plane to Bangkok, Thailand where they and the other tourists on the plane were greeted by an official from the American embassy...
...leather chairs, a linen-tablecloth restaurant, offices and a cigar room with a selection of whiskeys. Five to 12 minutes before departure time, fliers will proceed to the customs desk (no line here!), from which they will be whisked across the tarmac in a Mercedes or Porsche to their plane. Lufthansa is planning another exclusive terminal in Munich, and may consider similar lounges and the personal assistant service for passengers traveling from airports like New York City's John F. Kennedy or Hong Kong International. "It's the experience on the ground where we are setting ourselves apart," says Lufthansa...