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...years airline economists have known that by imposing all sorts of restrictions on tickets, it is much easier to capture customers and predict revenues. Although the perception is that security concerns drive these prohibitions (like preventing you from transferring the ticket to someone else), in fact there is no real reason why you shouldn't be able to give your ticket to your sister if you can't make a trip. Airlines could still make the passenger who boards the plane show an I.D. card, so of course they would know who is on the plane...
...trying to predict the effects of the Jeffords switch, you have to wonder how far the Democrats will push this slim majority. Things don?t usually pass through Congress on a very tight margin - you need a 67 majority, not a 51 majority, in order to feel truly in control. And obviously neither party is going to have a majority like that anytime soon...
...golf, I predict that Tiger Woods will not win the U.S Open. I do warn you, however, that I am an idiot...
...attention a few years ago after James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was quoted on the front page of the New York Times saying that it was going to happen within two years. Watson later claimed he had been misquoted; he had meant to predict only that certain compounds designed to starve cancerous tumors would be proved effective in two years...
...always, it's dangerous to predict on the basis of two-minute trailers, but Fox's two drama entries were also among the few drama previews that worked for me this year, meaning that they made me want to see the pilots they advertised even if my job didn't require me to. "24" is nothing if not audacious. First for casting Kiefer Sutherland. Second, for aiming to tell a single 24-hour story, in real time, over the course of a season. Government agent Sutherland discovers a plot to assassinate a presidential candidate (who may be on the verge...