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...Officers were sent to the Museum of Comparative Zoology on a report of a party acting suspiciously in the building. A foot pursuit ensued
...There are many potential Boonlerds and Jaafars out there to fuel the rise of budget airlines. Fernandes estimates that only 6% of all Malaysians have ever set foot on a plane; in Indonesia, a mere 1% of its 238 million people has. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers. As incomes rise steadily around Asia, industry analysts expect air travel to grow more than 5% a year across the region over the next two decades, with growth of more than 8% in China...
...wealth tax. It was time to leave the country. Leaving "was painful. There are very few tech success stories in Europe and I felt I was penalized because I had done good things for my country," Payre says. As for France, "it's shooting itself in the foot," he contends. "The average French person thinks the rich have to pay. They don't realize that the rich are also the job and wealth creators. If you tax them like crazy they won't do it anymore." Today, Payre lives in and does business out of Belgium. In Germany, the Taxpayers...
...hire a personal assistant on the grounds that it would feel "absurd" to do so. Yet all this self-deprecation may explain why she's a burgeoning star. "She really does lack pretense," says Bruckheimer. "I'm a big believer that if you project somebody on a 100-foot screen, you look into their soul. Keira appreciates everything she gets, and she doesn't take herself seriously. Believe me, the audience sees that. Honesty and believability make movie stars. She's got both...
...supported the Hemings' inclusion, most did not. In 2002, the group voted 74 to 6 to deny them full membership. The already strained relations turned decidedly frigid last year when the association restricted the number of Hemings allowed to attend its reunion and attempted to bar them from setting foot inside the graveyard at Monticello. Paulie Abeles, the wife of the association's president at the time, even admitted to having secretly infiltrated an online discussion group that the Hemings had been using, in order to spy on their messages. "It was just an ugly, ugly situation," says Lucian Truscott...