There Is Only One Thingthat Will Reduce Delays At all These Airports: more Runways!

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Our "Datastream" about knives (Start, 17.03) included the magic glaive from the awesome 1983 filmKrull, but initially we weren't sure we'd be able to get its dimensions (needed for scale). So we called Battle-star Galactica producer Ron Moore for backup: the real, live bat'leth(the Klin-gon sword depicted below) he keeps in his office. It measures 43.5 inches. In the end, we did track down the son of Krull's producer, who, naturally, owns a glaive-all 12.5 inches of it. That's the thing about sci-fi aficionados: They seem harmless, but they will cut you, man. I enjoyed the article about the value of transparency in identifying fraudulent behavior by the decentralized masses ("The Road Map for Recovery," issue 17.03). I find it curious that we hail free markets as the gold standard of economic models and fiercely object to anything resembling central control of prices and resources. Yet we feel that a central bureaucracy is the best way to regulate a modern, constantly evolving economy. By disseminating information in a standardized format, you can crowdsource the identification of fraud. In the information age, information rules. Make it available. Make it understandable. And make it work for us, not against us.