So you talked about the coming apocalypse to whoever would listen to your history teacher, who claimed he was building a survival cabin in the Poconos, to your boy who was stationed in Panama (in those days you still wrote letters), to your around-the-corner neighbor, Miss Lora.

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They are taught to look above and below seats and in lavatories and galleys, all the while watching the ceiling of the cabin to see if gasses are building that would create a flashover fire.

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Open at least one window a small amount to prevent carbon dioxide from building up in the passenger cabin while you wait for help.

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New York's Tenement House Museum now refers to its historic building, tellingly, not as slum housing but as an "urban log cabin"--a starting point for upward mobility.

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