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"I'm a white-knuckle flier, and she thought that this would keep me distracted."
MIKE GOODWIN,
54-year-old passenger on newly launched Hooters Air, which features a buxom staff, on why his wife chose the airline

"We ate dates."
SILJA STAEHELI,
19-year-old Swiss woman held hostage for six months by an Islamic radical group in the Sahara desert, explaining how she and 13 others survived

"It feels like a nightmare from which we are still hoping to wake. If only it were."
KOFI ANNAN,
Secretary General of the U.N.,...