Aug 5th, 2008 · JetBlue is the latest airline to add an extra charge. Passengers will now pay for pillows and blankets. But don't get ideas about passing on travel costs: Carol Greenberg of Ohio was driving back from a Michigan veterinarian when she got stuck in construction traffic. The Toledo Blade newspaper reports that she sent transportation officials a bill for $16 in wasted gas. The state declined to pay for the gas — or for the cat that howled in the car the whole time.
Keywords: newspapers · transport · passengers · Ohio · Traffic · Airlines · blankets · Blade · JetBlue · Bill · Michigan · construction
Jun 17th, 2008 · Widely recognized as one of the finest drummers in modern jazz — indeed, in all of popular music — Blade leads his celebrated Fellowship Band, fresh off their first new recording in eight years, onto the famed underground stage.
Keywords: Village · modern · music · Jazz · Vanguard · Brian · drummer · Blade · Fellowship Band
May 15th, 2008 · "Return of the Prodigal Son," like the parable from which it draws its name, is a homecoming story. Eight years have passed since Brian Blade Fellowship's last release, and during that time, Blade himself has been more prodigious than prodigal.
Keywords: music · fellowship · prodigious · Brian · Blade · Homecoming · parable · Prodigal Son · Brian Blade Fellowship · prodigal
Jan 26th, 2008 · Ice skating is one of the great pleasures of winter. But the origin of the idea of attaching blades to our feet has not been well understood. Researchers at Oxford University think they may have an answer. Federico Formenti, co-author of the study called "Human Locomotion on Ice," says it all started in Finland.
Keywords: science · history · original · Pleasure · Blade · Oxford University · Finland · Federico Formenti · Human Locomotion
Jan 18th, 2008 · Twenty five years later, a boomerang has come back. Those flying blades are used by Australia's aborigines to hunt animals. They're supposed to return to a skilled thrower. And back in 1983, one disappeared from a museum in Australia's northern state of Queensland.
Keywords: animal · Skilling · museum · Australia · Blade · aboriginal · throwers · 1983 · Boomerang · disappeared · Queensland
Dec 17th, 2007 · Few modern American films have achieved the cult status of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. On the eve of the release of a new, final cut of the movie, the director discusses how the dystopian fantasy's path to film legend was anything but straight.
Keywords: director · Americans · Scott · modern · movies · legend · Vision · Ridley · Fantasy · Blade · runner · cult
Jun 25th, 2007 · Monday marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the movie Blade Runner. The film's neo-noir production is cited as having influenced building design. Some argue that its dystopic setting of Los Angeles in 2019 is not far removed from life on the streets of downtown Los Angeles today.
Keywords: products · Los Angeles · prophet · anniversary · movies · Neo · Blade · runner · noir · Blade Runner · dystopian · 2019
Mar 30th, 2007 · In the new film Blades of Glory, comic actor Will Ferrell plays a boorish figure skater forced to team up with another man in a pairs skating competition. The role is Ferrell's latest in a series of characters that have parodied macho men.
Keywords: Competition · actor · comic · Blade · Skater · parodies · Will Ferrell · Ferrell · Blades of Glory · boorish · macho
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