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Food: Would cavemen enjoy in-flight meals?

On your next flight, would you enjoy a dinner of roast dinosaur? There are several scientific studies going on that examine the diet of Stone Age humans. The rumor is that cruise lines, airlines and hotel chains are interested in serving foods that include more natural and healthy ingredients.

Actually, just kidding about dinosaur on the menu. If you ever stayed awake in history class, you’d know those beasts were gone from the earth several million years before man arrived. However, the cavemen's simple diet, primarily of meats, is considered healthy for today’s humans by some nutrition experts. Just don’t try convincing a vegan of that.

Stone Age people were hunter-gathers who found food, primarily animals, within short distances of where they lived. They did eat some wild grasses and beans, but researchers claim vitamin-rich liver, kidneys and brains were their favorites. By the way, have those researchers considered that cavemen died at 30 of old age?

Delta Air: Where, Oh Where Did My Little Bag Go? PDF Print E-mail


Remember when they started injecting little ID beepers under the skin of pet dogs and cats? It allowed owners to more quickly recover them when they wandered off. Now, Delta Airlines is using computer bleeps to cut back on lost and misdirected luggage.

No, they’re not injecting passengers with beepers. Just their bags. As each is placed on the conveyor belt, a small computer signal IDs it for that specific flight. If no signal, a red light flashes, and the belt would stop until a Delta baggage handler sends the bag on a correct route.

 
 
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