Brendan I. Koerner Quotes

United States, Author
September 21, 1974

Brendan Ian Koerner (born September 21, 1974) is an American book author and has been a contributing editor or columnist for Wired magazine, The New York Times, Slate magazine and others. His books include Now the Hell Will Start (2008) and The Skies Belong to Us (2013).

Also known as Editor, Columnist

A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.

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- American
- Success
- Hand
Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.

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- Light

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

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- People
Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.

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- American
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

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- History
- Effort