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Possible Tsunami after quake in Chile, flight attendant fight leads to canceled flight, new camera alarms to improve watching passengers

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Now there’s a headline I never thought I’d write.
In one short week, it seems I’ve offended sadomasochists and great white sharks with my commentary. I feel an apology is in order.
Let’s start with the S&M practitioners. In a post about the recent problems of the TSA in Orlando, I made an offhanded reference to the [...]

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One of my co-worker’s clients actually had an upgraded business class seat booked directly with United, but he nonetheless decided to take a sleeping pill to help him make it through the flight. The pill worked too early and too well and he slept through boarding.

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For many travelers, too many babies on a plane can be one. If that one is crying and sitting anywhere near you.

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Who flies from Washington, DC, to Sydney, Australia, for slightly more than two days? Clearly only a nut or someone on a mileage run who was taking advantage of the deeper than deep discounted fares to go “down under.” What I didn’t realize is Sydney is an adult playground. Will I return? You bet.

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Qantas flight 93 touched down at Los Angeles International Airport early yesterday, completing the airline’s first A380 flight from Melbourne, Australia. The world’s biggest jetliner was greeted by public officials and Hollywood celebrities, including John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

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Remember when you saw graffiti everywhere across our country? New York was covered with it, especially the subways. Even in the hinterland, highway walls and bridges were spray-painted in bright, primary colors with that distinctive aerosol art motif. Well, sadly, this vulgar piece of American pop culture has gone global. Charlie Leocha has some theories why.

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Police shot and killed a man Wednesday after he hijacked a bus in northwest China and took 10 Australians hostage.

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