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United Extras. United passengers can purchase the "Premier Line" privilege for $25 on flights departing from select airports. Pay the fee when you get your boarding pass (use the Premier check-in line) for access to priority screening lanes and the right to board the plane first, to claim that overhead rack space. A few other United offers worth noting: Buy an annual membership to Economy Plus for $349, and you will be automatically upgraded at no extra charge every time you book an economy-class seat on the airline. Economy Plus seats, with five inches of extra legroom, usually...
...nonsense style will help their national team achieve something unprecedented: a place at the World Cup finals in 2014. It is a daunting task. Reid must motivate not only talented yet underperforming young Thai players but also millions of cynical Thai fans who would much rather watch English Premier League football than their often amateurish homegrown variety. Though Reid has a four-year contract, his honeymoon period will be much shorter. "People want the Thai team to upgrade itself, and not just into an Asian powerhouse," says Tor Chittinand, soccer correspondent for the Bangkok Post. "We're aiming...
...pint of Tetley's pretty much anywhere these days." Peter Reid - older, wiser and apparently with expletives depleted - also seems comfortable in Thailand. "It's an adventure," he says. "Even though you do miss home, I can get English radio through me laptop and the Premier League and European games are always on. It's a small world these days...
...come for their country to open up its economy and to embrace something akin to capitalism. The monumental shift - China under Mao Zedong had been a centrally planned economic disaster - reflected the growing, behind-the-scenes influence of a man few in the West had then heard of: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. China, the ruling Communist Party decreed back then, "required great growth in the productive forces." And Deng was smart enough to know that that could come in only one way. China would get on the road to capitalism...
...great survivor. He had been a party member for nearly 60 years, and had been purged more often than a top model's digestive tract, only to claw his way back to the leadership. China was desperate. The horrors of the Cultural Revolution were a fresh memory. As Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech to a World Economic Forum conference in Tianjin this year, in 1978 "the country was in a backward state ... with the economy on the brink of collapse...