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Imagine a video of a plane hurtling toward the ground - and then suddenly someone hits the pause button. That may be the best metaphor for the financial disaster that currently is Alitalia, the Italian carrier that is this close to bankruptcy...
...deep and unthinking tendency to conform, even in areas--like energy consumption--where conformity is irrelevant. For 30 years, Thaler has documented the ways people act illogically: we eat more from larger plates, care twice as much about losing money as about gaining it, fret over rare events like plane crashes instead of common ones like car accidents. That research underpins Nudge's argument that as policymakers go about their jobs--whether regulating the mortgage industry or organizing food in school cafeterias--they should design programs that give people choices but also invisibly coax them away from bad ones. Putting...
...alleged attempt to smuggle explosive material onto a plane prevented by a lucky guess? Or was there some science at work...
...times as powerful as medical ones. But to make a life-size X ray of a Boeing 777 for Boston's Logan Airport in 2003, even that wasn't enough - he needed artistic ingenuity too. Over several months, he digitally stitched together 500 separate X-rays of the plane. The resulting picture is exquisite and gets beneath the surface of every detail. Except for the pilot and crew: for them, Veasey used skeletons as stand...
...Until Matt walks off the plane - or they carry him off - we will believe and have faith that Matt is alive," Keith told TIME on the first anniversary of his son's abduction. "I'm almost certain that it's a test from God and that God is not going give you more than you can bear...