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The Time Machine Ta-Nehisi Coates Nov 1 2011, 10:00 AM ET Tweet More Email Print A personal case for taking the train in the age of full-body scans, runway delays, and other indignities of airplane travel. You may recall,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], early last September, my resolution to abandon air-travel. It is a work in progress, given how often I have to leave home. I took my first step last week, taking a nine- hour train ride to Pittsburgh instead of the one-hour flight. The common calculation holds that the flight--even with delays, boarding, and the TSA--would have saved time. I think that's true in terms of quantity, but less so in terms of quality.More often than not, my flights end with a stressed-out call to my wife, and me re-enacting some beef over cramped legs or ridiculous delays. These are minor annoyances that don't really register in my mind on a moral scale. More disturbing is the security theater, the virtual, and actual, rifling through luggage, and the rather outrageous abuses that all too regularly