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...seats from the A320's standard 170-seat configuration) add to the comfort?and when not in use, the middle seat in each row converts into a table. At the moment, the fledgling airline only makes the hour-and-a-half-long trip to Tokyo's domestic Haneda Airport from its home base in the western port city of Kitakyushu, but look out in future for routes to Shanghai and Seoul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Starflyer is Born | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

Only the deaf know Hounslow. The west London borough sits uncomfortably beneath the flight paths of nearby Heathrow Airport, where many of the vicinity's largely immigrant Indian and Pakistani residents labor as porters, cleaners and security guards - dreaming of escape, a better life for their children and, for now, triple-glazed windows to block out the noise. Yet Hounslow is about to become famous for another, similarly noisy local feature: a violent, hip-hop-infused, South Asian youth culture that is the subject of perhaps the year's most loudly hyped first novel. The talk of last fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pump Up The Street Cred | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...Office and apartment blocks are springing up. There's an Egyptian-themed bowling alley, a Scottish pub where the barmen wear kilts, a chain of eight fast-food restaurants called McPeak (which McDonald's considered buying), countless sushi bars and a huge German cash-and-carry hypermarket near the airport. "It used to be hard to get credit, but now banks are lining up to lend to us," says Leonid Bazerov, who built a shopping mall in an abandoned theater in the mid-1990s and has expanded it to almost 10 times the original size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Rich in the Heart of Russia | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...known more formally as the Swiss Re headquarters. But Foster's immense operation--he employs 534 people--is still thriving. It has projects under way in 22 nations, including a substantial addition to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a pyramidal office tower in Moscow City and a huge airport for Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Triangle | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...This isn't the first embarrassing public episode for Patrick Kennedy, who several years ago admitted that he had battled addiction and undergone therapy and taken medication to help treat depression, In March of 2000, he was videotaped shoving a Los Angeles airport security guard, and in August, the Coast Guard intervened when he had an argument with a girlfriend on a rented yacht. Since he became the youngest Kennedy elected to office when he won a seat in the Rhode Island state house at the age of 21, Kennedy has made no secret of the fact that the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennedy's Democratic Distraction | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

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