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Permission to Dodge the Line. Southwest Airlines will offer "Fly By" priority lanes through security for Business Select and Rapid Reward A-List customers starting Oct. 17. Passengers at Baltimore/Washington International, Dallas Love Field, Phoenix Sky Harbor International, Orange County John Wayne, Denver International, San Francisco International and Los Angeles International should look for the orange and blue Southwest Fly By lane sign in the security area and present your boarding pass or A-List card to gain access to the special screening fast-lane. The program will roll out to other airports starting in November...
Rooms with a View. Hilton has opened an outpost in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, next to the city's convention center - a sky bridge attaches the two buildings - and it's so close to Camden Yards that you can watch the Orioles play from your window and from the hotel's fitness center. The 757-room hotel is set up for conferences, with the largest ballroom in Baltimore, and meeting spaces with hi-speed Internet access and video-conferencing capabilities. If you have some spare time, the National Aquarium with 16,500 animals, including a tank full of stingrays...
...Google Maps app, for instance, is genius. It incorporates 360-degree views of urban streets, plus an innovative compass mode that shifts the onscreen image depending on how you hold the device. Hold it up, and you'll see rooftops and blue sky. Point it down and you'll see car wheels and pavement. No other smartphone is so transporting...
...Sept. 29, NASA announced that a laser instrument aboard the Phoenix lander, which touched down north of Mars' arctic circle last May, had spotted snow falling through the planet's frigid sky. Martian snowfall isn't like earthly snowfall; this descended from some 2.4 miles (4 km) up and appeared to vaporize before it reached the surface. Still, the picture that Phoenix is painting is of a meteorologically dynamic world, one not only with occasional flurries but also with clouds and fog forming at night in addition to the famed Martian winds...
...meaning it will need two years to get where it's going. Still, the trip should be easier than it once would have been, thanks to a sister ship, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which arrived in 2006 and can provide eye-in-the-sky guidance...