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...other coast, could seem remote to anyone who does not live in California. But the contests were marked by moments of clutch hitting, including the double Angels cleanup hitter Garret Anderson belted to right field in game seven, and of high human drama, as when J. T. Snow deftly scooped Giants manager Dusty Baker’s three-year-old son from danger at home plate in game five. This World Series may not have been as riveting as last year’s, but it certainly wasn’t boring enough to explain the 25 percent...
Most folks know Buffalo, N.Y., for its chicken wings, but in the airline business it's famous for ferocious winter storms that bring air travel--and sometimes all travel--to a frozen halt. That's what happened last December when Buffalo was buried under a record 7 ft. of snow. Southwest Airlines, with its lean scheduling system, was hit harder than most. One of its planes got stuck so long it came due for a routine maintenance check. Without it, the plane wouldn't be allowed to fly--and that would cost Southwest tens of thousands of dollars in lost...
Johnny Bomaster, 38, had an idea. A certified maintenance-check mechanic for Southwest, he lived just seven miles from the Buffalo airport but couldn't reach it over roads clotted with snow. So he tossed his toolbox onto the back of a snowmobile and zoomed through the drifts to the stranded plane. By next morning, when the runways and roads had been plowed and passengers were streaming through the terminal, Bomaster had thoroughly checked the plane and allowed it to take off fully loaded. (A new storm then stranded him at the airport for an additional 24 hours...
...movie’s greatest flaw is its inability to create a sympathetic character in Katie. The screenplay rarely delves thoughtfully into her mind; instead, it relys on shamelessly dramatic flashbacks of her father leaving her in a field of snow to give the audience insight into her doom-riddled fear of abandonment. Moreover, although the most crucial aspect of Katie’s affliction that feeds into the final plot twist is rather obvious right from the start, the movie chooses to pretend that the viewer has no clue about this key fact and plows through scene after scene...
BEST IMITATION OF TOM BRADY IN THE SNOW GAME...