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...money and in the end accepts a bribe of $100,000 to go away. King's narcissistic autogyro is a sort of 1930s version of the Osprey, or of those personal motor-scooters-of-the-air that the writer James Fallows envisioned, pre-9/11, as universal transport in a coming yuppie paradise. In Capra the real Americans take their chances with one another traveling overland. (Contemplating the current plan to use $15 billion of taxpayers' money to bail out the aviation industry, one thinks that Capra, long ago, had his heart in the right place...
...entirely different reason. Americans might be forced to trade some privacy to fly. "For aviation, it is imperative that we focus more thoroughly on individual people as potential security threats and not just on things like carry-ons and checked baggage," says Carol Hallett, head of the Air Transport Association, the industry's trade group...
Airlines always point out that flying is the safest means of transport. And the reason is that the airlines and the government have created a culture of safety that puts everything else (like comfort) second; a system of inspection, mechanical redundancies and training builds concentric rings of safety around a tube of metal filled with humans. Says McKenna: "We've created a system in which everyone involved with a flight understands that he or she is responsible for the safe conduct of that flight, and most people take that responsibility seriously. If we can do that with security, American passengers...
...view movies and more than 40 TV channels. "Since we implemented it, we've noticed improvement in patient satisfaction," says Les Donahue, CEO of Williamsburg Community Hospital in Williamsburg, Va., which uses Get Well. The system is being updated to allow remote check-outs. It will also tell the transport department that the patient is ready to leave, and the cleanup crew that the room is empty...
...Ziggy did something he had never done before. In a transport of sheer frustration, he picked the bottle up in his jaws and flung it. It struck a metal table leg and shattered. The doggy treat was free! Ziggy shot me a look of pure canine triumph...