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...official was more jolted by the new reality than Dick Cheney, dispatched by Bush on an 11-country road show last week through the Arab world to promote the Administration's plans to force a showdown with Iraq. The Vice President is known as a first-class listener, able to convey that others are being taken seriously instead of being gamed. He has never needed those skills more. From London to Amman to Cairo, Cheney was drummed with the same angry refrain: the U.S. must intervene in the conflict now, demand that Ariel Sharon pull all his troops...
...cheap, but compared to first- or business-class tickets - especially those bought at the last minute - they're sometimes a bargain. World Air Pass can fly a 14-passenger jet non-stop from New York to London at $3,000 a seat, one way. Considering that a round-trip, first-class commercial ticket could cost about $11,500 (and business class up to $7,400), a private jet can still be cost-efficient. Even when the private fare is higher, time savings can more than compensate. Savile says that for $29,000, Air Partner can ram an eight-city Europe...
...about a repeat of 1997, when a strain of avian flu virus?H5N1?jumped directly from a bird to a human. Eighteen people were infected; six died. And the outbreak caused worldwide concern among health experts, who feared a possible global pandemic. Now, despite what is described as a first-class surveillance system for its poultry, Hong Kong is suffering its third lethal outbreak of bird flu in nearly five years. Flu experts can't explain why. But a lack of coordinated regulations, record keeping and research between Hong Kong and southern China is one reason for their inability...
...slips into Bayley's question-mark posture, the gentle stammer, the face that has known Iris love and Iris awe for so long that it's wreathed in a permanent giddy smile. Then the face becomes streaked with concern--and a quiet rage--at the disintegration of a first-class mind, the loss of memories that constitute their long life together. "In every love story, there's a third party," Broadbent says, "and in this one, it's Dr. Alzheimer, who is taking her away. And still they become closer and closer...
Goodman says that changing standards earlier makes the whole process run more smoothly. In the government department, notoriously difficult for junior faculty, chair Roderick MacFarquhar describes similar changes. “I think that the department has been very hardworking in its attempt to get first-class junior faculty,” he says. “It’s not something that I chant as a mantra every September, but all my colleagues on search committee are well aware that they have to be thinking ahead...