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...effect. At one point, Munir asked the flight attendant if he could lie down in the aisle next to the lavatories. She put him in a seat nearby, and Munir drifted off to sleep. Hakim subsequently returned to business class, slept, and ate breakfast. A few hours before the plane was scheduled to land in Amsterdam, the purser asked Hakim to check on Munir, who didn't appear to be breathing. The human-rights activist was dead...
Like many students who chose to spend Thanksgiving in Cambridge, Felton—who ate the festive meal with a local relative—did so because the four day break was not worth the long travel and expensive plane tickets home...
Bybee, who is from Wisconsin, said this Thanksgiving was a lot more relaxing. Last year, he said, he rushed to pack and catch a plane, and spent his time at home racing between obligations to family and friends...
...It’s not worth it for people to buy plane tickets to be where they want to be,” she said. She has never gone home to Indiana for Thanksgiving, but has spent several with roommates who live closer to Cambridge...
Rutan woke up one morning six years ago at his desert home in Mojave, Calif., with a heat-beating idea no one had considered before: Why not build a space plane with wings that hinge up at its highest altitude, creating a feathering effect so it floats gently back to Earth like a shuttlecock in a game of badminton? Rutan quickly sketched out his idea and started showing it around...