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  • June 2008

    • World's Diciest Landing Strips

      Travel Leisure  |  Jun 29, 08 2:02 PM CDT

      World's Diciest Landing Strips

      (Newser) - The scenery is spectacular, but lofty mountaintops, stiff trade winds, and abbreviated tarmacs make for teeth-clenching landings at the world’s most harrowing runways, per Travel and Leisure : Paro Airport, Bhutan: Surrounded by 16,000-foot-high Himalayan peaks, what could possibly go wrong? Barra Airport, Scotland: Hold on tight. The roughness of your sandy landing is determined by the outgoing tide. More »

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      airport  • JFK Airport  • runway  • Bhutan  • Gibraltar

  • April 2008

    • Air Safety Experts Most Worried About Runways

      New York Times  |  Apr 25, 08 8:31 AM CDT

      Air Safety Experts Most Worried About Runways

      (Newser) - FAA-mandated wiring fixes have grounded thousands of flights lately, but the runway is no safe place for planes, New York Times reports. Serious runway incidents nearly doubled to 15 over the past six months, compared with the same period a year ago. “Where we are most vulnerable at this moment is on the ground,” said the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.   More »

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      airline industry  • airline  • FAA  • airline safety  • runway

  • February 2008

    • Fashion Icon Enlists Kiddies

      Reuters  |  Feb 28, 08 3:12 PM CST

      Fashion Icon Enlists Kiddies

      (Newser) - Children proved the future indeed for Vivienne Westwood at this year's Paris Fashion Week, with the British designer enlisting three dozen 7-year-olds to help with her latest collection. The British schoolkids painted bugs, plants, and snakes on Westwood’s eco-minded show "Chaos Point," which took to the runway Monday, Reuters reports. More »

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      climate change  • fashion  • Paris  • fashion designer  • Fashion Week  • runway  • Sex Pistols

    • Polyester Sticking to the Runway

      W  |  Feb 20, 08 7:04 PM CST

      Polyester Sticking to the Runway

      (Newser) - Once shunned as tacky, scratchy and smelly, polyester was front and center on spring runways this year. "In fashion when something's so hideous, it's great," Marc Jacobs tells W about his use of the synthetic in Louis Vuitton cardigans and skirts. Japanese designers Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake have spearheaded polyester's return to the glory of its 1960s heyday. More »

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      fashion  • fashion designer  • Louis Vuitton  • runway  • Marc Jacobs

    • Marant Defines Parisian Cool

      W  |  Feb 7, 08 10:40 AM CST

      Marant Defines Parisian Cool

      (Newser) - Paris runways are glamorous, swanky, exaggerated … and casual? Many designers showcase clothes you couldn't imagine going anywhere in, but Isabel Marant shuns haute couture for an effortless chic that's come to define Parisian cool. Her loose dresses, slouchy pants and light makeup aren't just all the rage in February's W magazine: “Every French girl wears Isabel Marant," says one reporter. More »

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      fashion  • Paris  • Kanye West  • Kate Moss  • runway  • Kirsten Dunst  • fashion label

  • January 2008

    • NASA Releases Pilot Gripes on Tired Crews, Air Traffic

      CNN  |  Jan 1, 08 4:58 AM CST

      NASA Releases Pilot Gripes on Tired Crews, Air Traffic

      (Newser) - Bowing to pressure from Congress, NASA has grudgingly released thousand of pages of pilot complaints, CNN reports. They include complaints about crowded skies, tired crews, and communication problems. The surveys of more than 30,000 pilots found twice as many collisions with bird, near-collisions with other aircraft, and runway incursions as the government's monitoring system had reported. More »

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      NASA  • accident  • air travel  • pilot  • airline safety  • runway

  • April 2007

    • Vogue Says Models Are Back

      Vogue  |  Apr 30, 07 1:56 PM CDT

      Vogue Says Models Are Back

      (Newser) - Vogue's May cover spotlights the next top models—real ones, not the reality-show variety—and makes the case that models with star quality are making a comeback. Jonathan Van Meter speculates that  our cultural obsession with warblers who can't sing and celebrities who can't behave is about to expire. More »

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      fashion  • entertainment  • model  • magazine  • Vogue  • Tyra Banks  • runway

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