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How good are your airplane manners?

Want to know just how bad it's gotten up there? Two words: Knee Defender.

The devious pocket-size gadget, available on the Internet, locks onto your lowered tray table so the passenger in front of you cannot recline in flight.

Oh, dear. Remember when flying was fun? Christopher Elliott does. He took his first flight in 1969, from New York to Munich, Germany, with his well-traveled...

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