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Designing a plane and building it are two very different things. Boeing's decision could make or break its business. "If Boeing does not launch the 7E7, it is putting the world on notice that it will probably never again develop a new jetliner," says Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at the Teal Group. "Even debating the issue casts doubts on its commitment to its current airplanes." Boeing's board hasn't officially given the go-ahead for the jet, which would start flying in 2008. But gung-ho Boeing executives have outlined to TIME their plans to launch...
...gangster, is back on a server near you, this time as a legal pay-per-download and subscription music service for Windows PCs. The official relaunch is Oct. 29, but a TIME test run shows that Napster 2.0 has got the rock to draw a crowd. The service will launch into stiff competition; this week Apple is expected to debut a Windows version of its highly successful (and until now Mac-only) iTunes Music Store...
Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people. Joel and Ethan Coen, having made a film whose title (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) was taken from a Preston Sturges movie, now launch a full, fond invasion of Sturges territory. In the tradition of The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story, this is a farce with chic repartee, devious twists and a cheerfully sardonic take on the human need for greed. Intolerable Cruelty sends moviegoers back to the '40s, when pretty people said witty things. It's the brothers' brightest, most accessible jape...
...comfortable strutting its stuff on the international stage as any member of the G-8. "Now, no one can look down on us anymore," crowed Xue Ping, a Shanghai-based software entrepreneur who was perusing Shenzhou V memorabilia at a local street market on the afternoon of the launch. "After a long time of being considered the little kids, we can now sit at the adult table...
Harvard knew before the match that Brown’s game plan would consist of Mansfield doing a flip—more of a handspring with the ball touching the ground instead of her hands, really—to generate torque with which to launch the ball toward the 5’9 Sewall. It just couldn’t stop...