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...State Committee on the State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom cupboard, site of the only phone in our rented house, I drove through a wild storm to board a flight back to Moscow. On a nearly empty Lufthansa flight out of Frankfurt I met up with a number of colleagues, somewhat apprehensive and very crestfallen, who had shared the Gorbachev-vacation theory...
...effect of low cabin pressure or dry cabin air, Lutz Bergau, Lufthansa's chief medical officer, says such things have not been convincingly associated with thrombosis, citing a study the airline conducted in 1993. But new research may be about to change all that. This week the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of scientists and industry representatives in Geneva to look at DVT specifically in the context of air travel. On the agenda: plans to review all the medical evidence available about DVT and to identify priority research areas. Separately, some of the scientists will also discuss...
...aircraft have expressed an interest in putting treadmills on board, a plan that could raise other safety issues. But some airlines continue to insist that DVT is the responsibility of the customer. "The risk [of DVT] does not concern the ordinary, healthy passenger," says Lufthansa's Bergau. "The flying public should be better informed about who's at risk and what they can do before, not during, the flight." (For precautions passengers can take...
...August 1999, he was hit with a hostile takeover bid backed by AMR, parent of American Airlines. Milton won a court verdict reaffirming a law that said no single shareholder could own more than 10% of Air Canada, effectively scuttling the bid. Then, with backing from United Airlines and Lufthansa, Air Canada swallowed its competitor for a fire-sale $61 million. Milton summed up his business philosophy: "I don't mess around with other people, and I don't like people messing around with...
...help boost women farther up the executive ladder, Lufthansa has joined with seven other major corporations to offer a so-called cross-mentoring system in which high-ranking managers in one company offer advice to women managers in another firm. It's an effort to help them develop the kind of old-boy network that allows male managers to successfully climb the corporate ladder...