As firefighters and police sifted through the rubble, a child's bed and a refrigerator were visible atop a pile of debris, and a television was facedown in the front yard.

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When I wasn't sleeping or submerged in the surf becoming one with a seahorse, I was facedown on a massage table covered in orchid petals with only the slight rumble of my own stomach to awaken me.

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Unfortunately, tragedy can strike with as simple an act as brushing one's elbow across the table, and that's all it took for me to knock my smartphone right onto a hard surface -- facedown in a perfectly horizontal position (the worst imaginable angle).

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Its so far successful facedown with the once-powerful mechanics' union may have broad echoes across a beleaguered airline industry as the nation's fourth-largest carrier takes a step toward getting its labor costs under control--a necessity if it's to avoid a bankruptcy filing this fall.

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