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...There is, however, a mystery about Lucky You. Warner Bros. is tossing it out on the weekend Spider-Man 3 is expected to earn a gajillion dollars. In effect, they're saying, if you can't get a ticket for Spidey, maybe you'll wander down the multiplex hallway and take a look at our picture. It is also said that Hanson has been forced into many months of re-editing fuss to reach this frustrating point. Finally, it has been observed that televised poker, which became a TV darling when this picture was green-lit, has lost some...
...generally gets the shaft,” said graduate student Beverley N. Foulks, who is in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Others had more pragmatic reasons for showing up. “Raffle,” confessed Henry J. Foo ’08, holding up his ticket for an iPod raffle. After the hour-long wedding ceremony and tea ceremony were recreated, and their respective cultural aspects explained through translation by Lee, an iPod shuffle was randomly awarded to an audience member. The ceremony ended in accordance with Korean tradition, with the groom giving the bride...
Instead, airlines taunt us with a byzantine yield-management pricing system that tries to factor in fuel prices, weather, congestion and everything else that complicates air travel. "It's not like any other business I know," says Grinstein. Selling an airline ticket is "more like trying to figure out a prisoner's dilemma than it is about trying to sell a can of paint." (Guess who's the prisoner?) Compare JetBlue's walk-up fares with Delta's advance-purchase fares, he says, and you'll see little difference. Still, demand is unusually high this year, meaning travelers should expect...
What scares me is that an airline ticket priced at $20 after all taxes and fees—which the Skybus website advertises will be available for at least 10 seats on every flight—makes sucker-punching the environment as easy as buying a t-shirt...
...truth is that, low-cost airlines such as Skybus are also low-conscience airlines. The cost of air travel will be paid, if not by travelers, then by the environment. America should consider a way of factoring the externalities of air travel into the cost of a ticket, just has been proposed by the European Commission...