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Steerage Would Be An Improvement
photo by Cory W. Watts Pay close attention, fellow flyers: I am about to tell you the secret to finding the most comfortable economy-class seat in U.S. domestic air travel. It is the seat directly...
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Going Home
Interstate 95, southbound. Photo by Ken Lund. Around sunrise tomorrow morning, if all goes according to plan, I will climb into a packed minivan in the New York City suburbs and drive for about 18...
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Hertz’s Underlying Conditions
photo by Michael Gray COVID-19 may claim the venerable Hertz brand as its latest victim. But the car rental giant – like most who succumb to the new coronavirus – suffered from some serious underlying...
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A Chinese No-Go Zone
Hong Kong. Photo by Gonzalo Pineda Zuniga. For a lot of Western business leaders, finding the right response to China’s draconian new security law is a difficult exercise of balancing competing...
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A Letter From Quarantine
photo by Flickr user risingthermals, licensed under CC BY-SA For the second time this year, I am under a two-week quarantine order for COVID-19. I accomplished this, thankfully, without any known...
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The 737 MAX Is Cleared For Takeoff
photo by Tomás Del Coro, licensed under CC BY-SA For many Americans, 2020 has felt like the year that will never end. But for Boeing, it has brought at least one bright spot: the end of the multiyear...
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A Scaled-Down Thanksgiving
photo by Pink Sherbet Photography, licensed under CC BY More than a quarter-million Americans who celebrated Thanksgiving last year are not here to take part in tomorrow’s festivities due to COVID-19....
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The Value Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’
Kennedy International Airport, 2008. Photo by Doug Letterman, licensed under CC BY. There will be no shortage of takers when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available in the United States,...
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No More Flying Peacocks
photo courtesy the Found Animals Foundation (www.foundanimals.org), licensed under CC BY-SA Dexter, the emotional support peacock, will never take another flight. Dexter died unexpectedly in 2018, some...
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The Theory Of Mass Transit Safety
photo by Marc A. Hermann, courtesy the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York, licensed under CC BY With finances devastated by the pandemic’s destruction of demand, public...
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