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Why Modern Airports Have to Change

Peter Mandel | Posted 04.03.2013 | Travel
Read More: Paddington Station, 1960s, Airports, Kennedy Airport, Suits, Airport Security, Tailfins, Denver International Airport, 1950s, JetBlue's Terminal 5, Encounter Restaurant, Chain Stores, Trains, Astronauts, Architects, Jfk, Lax, Baggage, Ocean Liners, Bars, Los Angeles International Airport, Boeing 767, New York's Pier 88, Jets, Flights, Souvenirs, Terror, Eero Saarinen, Airline Pilots, Snacks, Jetblue, Spaceships, Twa, Airport Design, The Future, Travel News
Peter Mandel

The fact is that the everyday-ness of today's airports is exactly the opposite of what we flyers need. Don't wall us off, you builders, from where we are and what we are about to do. We may be frightened but we are not dumb.

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UPDATE: Jill Scott Demands To Show Off Her Natural Hair

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 09.06.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Black Women, Essence Magazine, Jill Scott Essence Magazine, Bv-Fashion-Beauty, Jill Scott Photos, Black Women Hair, Essence, Natural Hair, African American Hair, Poll, Jill Scott Natural Hair, Twa, Afro, Jill Scott, Jill Scott 2012, Camp Jill Scott, Black Voices News

UPDATE 9/6 @2:00pm: Jill Scott has taken to Twitter to refute the reporting conducted by TheYBF.com. The singer tweeted three messages last night st...

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Williams Has Same 'Hunger as Monroe,' Says My Week With Marilyn Director

Felice Arenas | Posted 01.23.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Wendy and Lucy, Zoe Wanamaker, Academy Awards, Dougray Scott, Sybil Thorndike, Colin Clark, Judi Dench, Oscar, Michelle Williams, Michelle Williams Marilyn Monroe, Eddie Redmayne, Simon Curtis, Best Actress, Marilyn Monroe, Sir Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch, Brokeback Mountain, Dominic Cooper, Blue Valentine, Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn Michelle Williams, Celebrity, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Zoë Wanamaker, Paula Strasberg, Milton Greene, Arthur Miller, Twa, Entertainment News
Felice Arenas

Both are flaxen-haired, beautiful, and have had their personal ups and downs dominate headlines. But what is the most striking similarity between Michelle Williams and Marilyn Monroe?

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Pan Am Days: A Near Miss At JFK

Carole Mallory | Posted 12.29.2011 | Travel
Read More: Sixties, Stewardesses, Carole Mallory, Jfk, Travel Blogs, Pilots, Pan Am, Twa, New York Airports, Travel News
Carole Mallory

I was feeling safe and secure beneath the navigator's seat belt when I saw the nose of a gigantic jet coming straight at us.

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Pan Am: A Dream Takes Flight (Part IV)

Helen Davey | Posted 10.07.2011 | World
Read More: Pan American World Airways, Pan Am ABC Television Series, Carl Icahn, Civil Aeronautics Board, Pan Am Stewardesses, Deregulation, Pan American Airways, Charles Lindbergh, Juan Trippe, Twa, Pan Am, Pan Am Pilots, Frank Lorenzo, Eastern Airlines, Airline Terminology, World News
Helen Davey

Pan Am was the airline that practically invented aviation. It pioneered air navigation and communications, and its list of "firsts" in the industry is awe-inspiring. Known as the "Queen of the Skies," it was the benchmark by which all other airlines were judged.

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Hangar Flying Through History From a Wing Chair

Christine Negroni | Posted 10.03.2011 | New York
Read More: Herb Kelleher, John McCoy, Virgin, Fiorello LaGuardia, CR Smith, Richard Branson, Wings Club, American Airlines, Twa, Pan Am, David McKay, Harris Herman, Robert Crandall, New York News
Christine Negroni

Airplanes had been around nearly forty years when New York's Wings Club was formed in 1942. And over the years the club has charted a course that pa...

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Pilots Versus Pilots - Years of Waiting in TWA Lawsuit

Christine Negroni | Posted 09.19.2011 | Travel
Read More: Air Line Pilots Association, American Airlines, Twa, Allied Pilots Association, Travel News
Christine Negroni

A federal jury has determined that TWA pilots were wronged by their union, the Air Line Pilots Association, during that airline's merger with American Airlines a decade ago.

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Mubarak Takes Flight

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Iran, Southwest Airlines, El Al, Mubarak, British Airways, American Airlines, Full-Body Scanners, Iranian Flag, Twa, Ryanair, Emirates Airlines, El Baradei, Comedy News
Mark Steinberg

"Mr. President, it's time to leave for the airport." "Never happen. Not going to let him take a picture of my junk. As it is, that's all they're letting me take with me."

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A Teen's Third World America

Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: E.J. Montoya, Asce, Infrastructure, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Third World America, Education, Native Americans, Native American Community Academy, Santa Ana Pueblo, Twa, American Society of Civil Engineers, Naca, Politics News

In the next five years, the American Society of Civil Engineers http://www.asce.org/ estimates that the United States will have to spend more than one...

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WATCH: Arianna 'Tawks' With Fran Drescher, Praises Michelle Rhee

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Michelle Rhee, Video, Third World America, Fran Drescher, Arianna Huffington Fran Drescher, Twa, Tawk, Media News
Huff TV

Arianna sat down to "tawk" with Fran Drescher on Tuesday. The former "Nanny" star recently launched her eponymous (and phonetic) "Fran Drescher Tawk S...

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Unemployed Find Old Jobs Now Require More Skills

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Job Skills, Jobs Crisis, Unemployment, New Job Skills, Economic Crisis, Employment, Jobs, Financial Crisis, Twa, Business News

WASHINGTON — The jobs crisis has brought an unwelcome discovery for many unemployed Americans: Job openings in their old fields exist. Yet they no l...

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Beyond Left And Right: Arianna And Mike Huckabee On Fox News (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Third World America, Cdos, Fannie Mae, Freddie Fannie, Arianna Huffington Fox News, Infrastructure, Credit Default Swaps, Video, Freddie Mac, Mike Huckabee, Fox News, Derivatives, Twa, Huffington Huckabee, Politics News
Huff TV

Arianna visited Mike Huckabee's eponymous show this weekend, finding plenty of common ground with the Fox News host and former Republican governor fro...

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Natural Gas Pipeline Crisis Plans Kept From Public

AP | SHARON THEIMER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Natural Gas, Natural Gas Pipelines, Pipeline Crisis Plans, San Bruno, San Bruno Fire, San Bruno Explosion, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, PHMSA, Pge, Twa, Third World America, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are examining whether the California utility whose natural gas pipeline explosion killed at least eight peopl...

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Firefighters Watch As Home Burns: Gene Cranick's House Destroyed In Tennessee Over $75 Fee (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Firefighters, House Fire Tennessee, Third World America, Tennessee Firefighters, Firefighters Watch House Burn, South Fulton, Firefighters Watch as Home Burns to the Ground, Cranick, Fire, Obion County Tennessee, Cranick Fire, Obion County, Video, Tennessee, Obion County Fire, South Fulton Fire, Firefighters Watch Home Burn, Twa, Gene Cranick, Home News

A smoldering rage may be all that remains after Gene Cranick's home burned to the ground last week in Obion County, Tennessee. Firefighters are usual...

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Life Insurance Becoming 'Tax Shelter For The Rich'

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Insurance Industry, Middle Class Life Insurance, Middle Class, Third World America, Twa, Tax Shelter, Life Insurance, Business News

In a development all but unnoticed outside the industry, life-insurance companies gradually have shifted away from their broad historical base of midd...

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Income Gap Between Rich And Poor Hits All Time High

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Income Gap, Third World America, Twa, Census, Census Income, Rich Poor, Wealth Gap, Income Inequality, Income, Business News

WASHINGTON — The recession seems to be socking Americans in the heart as well as the wallet: Marriages have hit an all-time low while pleas for ...

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Aging Gas Pipe At Risk Of Explosion Nationwide

AP | GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Pipeline Explosion, San Bruno, Pipeline Fire, San Bruno Pipeline, San Bruno Explosion, San Bruno Fire, Twa, Pge, Pipeline Safety, Video, Los Angeles News

SAN BRUNO, Calif. -- The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communitie...

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Orphaned by Job Loss: Voices of Pan Am

Helen Davey | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Corporate Collapse, Job Loss, Trauma, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Global Economic Collapse, Braniff Airlines, Psychoanalysis, Juan Trippe, Psa, Pan American World Airways, Piedmont Airlines, Traumatic Loss, Collapse of Iconic Companies, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Pan Am 103, Lockerbie, Eastern Airlines, Pan Am, Twa, Western Airlines, John Davey, Healthy Living News
Helen Davey

In this, the last blog of my series, I hope to leave my readers with more understanding of the possible impact of traumatic loss of a company like Pan Am on employees.

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Renewable Energy Expert Steve Smith Mitigates Conflicts in Congo, Rwanda, Sudan

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Renewable Energy, Peace Corp, Somalia, Darfur, United Nations, Refugees International, Twa, Thought Leaders, Thomas Pakenham, Madeline Albright, Hutu-Tutsi Genocide, Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Wikipedia, Global Citizens, Congo, Laurent-Desire Kabila, Human Rights Monitors, Women in Transition, Belgian Colonies, Tutsis, Democratic Republic of the Congo, National Peace Corp Association, Chic Dambach, Zaire, Ohio, Mobutu Sese Seko, Conflicts Resolution, Tanzania, French Language, Swahili, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Steve Smith, Chevron, Roman Catholic Church, The Scramble for Africa, Kinshasa, USAID Office of Transition Initiatives, Burundi, Hutus, Steven Smith, New York City, U.N. Development Program, Refugee Camps, Geneva, Eastern Congo, Genocide, Jimmy Carter, Sudan, Hillary Clinton, Operation Support Hope, Fortune 500 Companies, Usaid, Hotel Rwanda, Rwanda, Léopoldville, Kinyarwanda, World News
Jim Luce

Multi-tasking is de rigueur these days, so it comes as no surprise that renewable energy expert and conflict resolution specialist Steve Smith has his hands full. His specialty comes from years of practice.

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Culture Zohn: Eero Saarinen Shaped the Future

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: General Motors, Eero-Saarinen, Finland, Cesar Pelli, John Deere, Robert Venturi, Kevin Roche, Irwin Miiller, Yale School of Architecture, Twa, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2010-01-22-saarinen.jpg This is the conversation about architecture of the 2st Century. What counts most? Your fanny or your fancy?

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