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...Some airlines are already updating their passenger information material. British Airways recently introduced a health pamphlet that travelers receive with their tickets. LOT, the Polish airline, will soon include a page of exercises in its inflight magazine. Dutch carrier KLM has launched a special website with health-related information. Airbus reports that buyers of its new A-380 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...
...they now? Rob Malda, founder of the news website Slashdot (profiled in September), has fostered hot newcomers like the pop-culture site Plastic.com by giving away valuable code for free. David Neeleman's jetBlue airline (January) celebrated its first birthday last month, took delivery of its 11th new Airbus 320 and prompted the Transportation Department to coin the term "jetBlue effect," which occurs when the upstart enters a market and fares dramatically drop. Richmond McCoy, whose real estate company UrbanAmerica (October) invests in impoverished areas, landed a $75 million credit line from Citigroup. And the edgy Catalan chef Ferran Adria...
...made up. Disputes are looming about how to rejigger sanctions against Iraq and over which countries should next get into nato. There's a bumper crop of noisy trade issues too, and all of them tread on sensitive domestic toes: bananas, R and D subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, the genetically modified grub Americans are happy to swallow but Europeans denounce as "Frankenfood...
...doubts about the case. "Why did Pan Am 103 crash on Lockerbie, not into the Atlantic Ocean?" Swire asked. With that he pointed to a fundamentally different hypothesis for the bombing, based on two events earlier in 1988. On July 3 the U.S. cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Strait of Hormuz, killing 290 people and fueling calls for revenge from hard-liners in the Iranian government. Pan Am 103 blew up less than six months after that incident, but more than two years after the bombing raids on Tripoli. The logic of revenge is inscrutable, certainly...
...heal the political rifts waiting to crack open. Here is a short list, which together constitute your second, more serious problem: National Missile Defense (NMD), U.S. troops in Bosnia, aid to Russia, Iran-Iraq sanctions plus sundry trade conflicts (e.g., over subsidies for the new monster Airbus that may do in Boeing's 747). These items galvanize the worst fears of the Europeans. They have a single name: American unilateralism. Nor should their alarm be shrugged off as routine babble of the smaller denizens of the international ecosystem. Those who live with an elephant have a right to worry when...