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...ancient mountains and shiny new energy-producing windmills, seems to further separate you from the everyday. And then the big, welcoming surprise: the sharply angled roof of the Tramway Gas Station looming over a low wall at the entrance to the desert resort, like a jet poised for takeoff. Tramway Gas, designed by Albert Frey and Robson C. Chambers in 1965, is iconically modern. Balancing restraint and exuberance, it promises an infinitely perfectible future. And it opens the door not just to Palm Springs but to one of the richest collections of Modernist architecture anywhere...
...papers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service arrived in the morning mail at Huffman Aviation International like notices for long-overdue library books. The forms in the envelope that Huffman president Rudi Dekkers opened Monday, March 11, announced that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi were cleared for takeoff, their M-1 student visas approved for flying lessons--six months to the day after the two terrorists steered hijacked jetliners into oblivion and mass carnage at the World Trade Center towers...
...their bottom lines, since they have suffered along with other travel-related industries. Samsonite, for one, will soon debut a roll-on bag complete with a padded seat that fits on the top of the suitcase so the traveler can take a load off during the hours before takeoff. Additionally, several companies are designing bags with see-through pouches so security guards can assess a bag's contents without rifling through flyers' belongings or making them unpack...
...WHAT JUDGES LOOK FOR The most important aspect of a good Lutz is a clean outside edge on the takeoff. The U.S. women, including Kwan, above, tend to "flutz," or fudge it by shifting from the outside to the inside edge just before launching into the air. Sarah Hughes has been particularly penalized for this flaw, and to correct the problem, she does not enter the jump with as deep an outside edge...
...past the perception that they are no-whites-need-watch zones if their networks didn't bolster it by scheduling them in blocks. UPN's Girlfriends (Mondays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.) has well-written black, white and biracial characters and a sophisticated take on race. Originally a salty, derivative takeoff on Sex and the City, it has matured into a perceptive look into the inner lives of four thirtyish black women. Creator Mara Brock Akil doesn't buy, though, that it's too "inside" for white viewers. "Look at Will & Grace," she says. "That show is so inside about...