And that sort of publicity could make privacy violations that once seemed abstract far more real for the plane-flying public.

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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.

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But some security researchers imagine a less sensational, if equally troubling possibility: Hundreds or thousands of aircraft radioing their approach to an air traffic control tower, and no way to sort through which are real and which are ghost plane signals crafted by a malicious hacker.

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Of the 11 players which lined up against Real, six perished in the accident on February 6 when the plane carrying players, staff, journalists and supporters crashed in a blizzard while trying to take off at the third attempt from Munich airport.

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Complex numbers, which have a real and an imaginary part added together, are the points on this plane that do not lie on either axis.

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Cubists focused on the two dimensional picture plane, attempting visual deception by combining geometric shapes to portray real objects, oft incorporating fragments of reproduced pop culture.

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There were a number of calls to relatives and you can kind of piecemeal a story out of that, but, this really is--no matter how painstaking the director takes time to try to approximate what happened and make it as real as possible--just that conjecture in what went on, on that plane.

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Ship and plane captains all over the area get word of the whale location in near-real time through e-mail alerts, text messages, faxes and pager messages.

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And, as Euler's successor, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was to discover, if you plot real numbers on one axis of a graph and imaginary ones on the other, you create a plane that represents both sorts of numbers.

ECONOMIST: Beno?t Mandelbrot