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Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre, 62, died Sunday after suffering a brain hemorrhage on Friday in Milan. He was an architect both in his heart and in his work. His flare for structure and volume along with his love of travel, particularly to Asia, defined his work throughout his career...
...rides and spectacles--it once featured a Lilliputian village populated with 300 midgets--were a must-see, even for A-list tourists like Charles Lindbergh and Sigmund Freud, who supposedly declared Coney Island the only part of America that interested him. In the decades that followed, TV and air travel provided other options for escape, as parts of the neighborhood were razed for public housing. Revival-minded artists have partly displaced the crime, drugs and prostitution that took hold in the '60s and '70s, but vacant lots, boarded storefronts and school- bus depots still lap up against Coney Island...
These days companies might be keeping a close eye on costs and CEO pay, but execs are increasingly bingeing on corporate travel. Even as the commercial airlines have upgraded first- and business-class cabins and new premium-class-only carriers have emerged to attract business fliers, many executives consider private-jet use preferable to commercial flying because it can be more time-efficient while allowing for a personal touch in business. But as private jets increasingly clog the skies, airline groups and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are demanding that they take on more fiscal responsibility in the booming industry...
...Industry experts say the bad publicity American Airlines and JetBlue received was enough to prevent airlines from repeating the mistakes again. "The marketplace handled this by giving terrible publicity to the airlines," says David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association. "JetBlue became a punch line and lost [millions] in revenue." After the incidents, both airlines sent the stranded passengers travel vouchers and letters of apology. JetBlue also enacted its own "Customer Bill of Rights," which says that passengers will not be stranded on the tarmac for more than five hours. It also entitles stranded passengers to travel vouchers...
...Many ordinary eastern Europeans have begun to chafe at the apparent lack of return on their investments of troops and resources in U.S.-led, far-off wars. And the failure of the U.S. to grant visa-free travel to eastern Europeans-their fellow E.U.-members in France and Germany can enter American borders freely-is another sore point. Bush has used his eastern European visits to trumpet a "freedom agenda," correctly asserting that, with their recent experiences under communist tyranny, eastern Europeans share his goal of spreading democracy around the world. But for now, the Albanians are the only ones...