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Virgin America is also taking a page from the playbook Southwest developed during the years it spent trying to repeal the Wright Amendment. That bit of legislation was roundly criticized as anticompetitive for keeping Southwest bottled up at Dallas' Love Field--and as less of a threat to American Airlines' fortress hub at Dallas--Fort Worth International. Virgin America's planned rally website, letVAFly.com uses the same technology Southwest did to link consumers wanting to complain with legislators and officials--especially those in California, since Virgin America is based outside of San Francisco...
...offers an excerpt from her new book, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, about how the brain rewires itself, sometimes just by thinking. Daniel Gilbert and Randy Buckner answer the intriguing question: What does the mind do when it's doing nothing at all? (Hint: think H.G. Wells.) Robert Wright, author of Nonzero and The Moral Animal, offers a Darwinian take on how we make life-and-death decisions--and suggests that what passes for morality is often something else entirely...
...LAWRENCE WRIGHT, THE LOOMING TOWER: AL-QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11...
...this compulsively readable, deeply unnerving book, Wright traces the rise of Islamic terrorism from the Egyptian polemicist Sayyid Qutb to the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood to Osama bin Laden. Enter John O'Neill, the FBI counterterrorism chief who connected the dots of al-Qaeda's plot and tried in vain to warn his bosses right up to the day he died--Sept...
...ice—New Hampshire passed the puck around, then shot it toward net. Harvard’s Christina Kessler, who had 33 saves overall, was screened from seeing the puck, which slipped past her for Hitchcock’s second goal of the game. Martine Garland and Sadie Wright-Ward got their 14th and 15th assists on the play.“I was screened,” Kessler said. “I caught a glimpse of it, but it wasn’t enough to keep it from going in.”Although the final period...