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...Airbus had brought its problematic pride and joy to New York, part of a 12-day "route-proving" tour and I was along for the press preview. After a series of accelerated altitude climbs to get to an airspace directed by JFK airport flight control, the A380 cruised at 39,000 ft. At full capacity, holding 519 people, the plane would be 569 metric tons or 1.3 million lbs. And, in mid-flight, the wings would tilt up 12 feet to hold the load - looking not unlike the downward sweeping motion of a bird...
...Dalby has a keen and subtle feel for textures and shadings. ("Nothing in the world," she knows, "is as soft as mole fur. Venetian silk velvet perhaps comes closest.") Yet as with any geisha who sticks in the memory, she's clearly no shrinking violet. She went on book tour once, she confesses, with blackened teeth, to see how the old Japanese custom would play in contemporary America. Attending a conference on Lady Murasaki, she dyed her hair purple because murasaki in Japanese can mean "purple...
...floor, a giant mechanical arm delivers crushed grapes into the 72 stainless-steel tanks that line the circular walls. Even more impressive are two enormous caverns bored into the hillside that store 22,000 barrels of crianza. "Making wine used to be like a secret in the Rioja," says tour guide Nunia Noja. Now it's like the underground lab in a James Bond film. www.cvne.com...
...classic Chocolat Chaud has 53% cocoa content (milky, sweet and reminiscent of childhood), and the decadent Chocolate Expresso is made with cream instead of hot milk - it's so thick it could be mistaken for custard. Frenchman Espouy takes his patrons on a tour of cocoa-producing countries: the Caribbean Santo Domingo, made with 70% cocoa, is spicy and bold, while the bittersweet African Tanzania is reminiscent of a complex cognac. The adventurous will want to try the Infinite Extravagance, made to the ancient Inca recipe, with 100% cocoa liquor and hot milk infused with chilies. For the indecisive, there...
Conventional wisdom holds that, unlike some of its peer institutions, Harvard doesn’t have a crime problem. At the University of Pennsylvania, tour guides point out the forest of emergency phones up and down the campus’ main drag, a panacea against the reputed urban ills of the university’s setting in West Philadelphia, a locality that is probably more familiar to college students as the crime-addled birthplace of the Fresh Prince of Belair. During our annual pissing match with Yale, Harvard students love to poke fun at New Haven’s unsafe...