Which is fine, but someone either has to come up with a way to generate wormholes, or we still have to plan on a long space flight to find naturally occurring ones.

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Military flight simulators have long born a resemblance to their video game counterparts, and have taken more than a few pointers over the years.

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Travelocity, for one, allows a buyer outside the U.S. or Canada to have any flight booking sent to a travel agent anywhere -- so long as he is a Sabre reservations system user -- to have the purchased ticket issued.

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While his wife, traveling with him on a recent flight to Dallas, thought the airline should have been using better technology long ago, Mr. Barker was just happy to have something better now.

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The lawyers said evidence presented at the athlete's bail hearing showed he is not a flight risk and should have the option of traveling outside South Africa as long as he has official permission.

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Even during peak holiday travel periods, adults, of course, outnumber children on planes, and airlines have to balance the needs of parents with other passengers whose nightmare is a long, crowded flight next to a noisy child.

WSJ: Flying With Little Children? Go to the Back of the Plane

"We do our best to make a flight with Austrian a high-level experience, which is why we have one chef on board of every single long-haul flight, " says Braun.

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