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...Vegas. And at the end of this year, it will launch the first-ever nonstop commercial flight from the U.S. to Singapore when it starts running a new Airbus 340-500 wide-body from Los Angeles. For the first time, the airline is marketing its Atlantic flights (including Chicago-Amsterdam and New York City--Frankfurt, Germany) as heavily as its Pacific ones. And for good reason: last year it was named best airline from the U.S. to Europe by Conde Nast Traveler's Business Travel Survey--the first year that it was in the running. Singapore Air has already...
...unequaled reputation for service and luxury among the recession-resistant rich--and careful pricing that makes its economy seats just dear enough--is helping SIA gain market share in today's sluggish economy. The airline is trimming economy-class fares only on routes like Newark to Amsterdam, where it most wants to gain share...
...course, the "core problem" is the U.S. property market, says Han de Jong, chief economist for ABN Amro in Amsterdam. "In hindsight, the housing market in the U.S. was a bubble." The cause? Superlow interest rates that encouraged lenders to offer loans to virtually anyone, even those with bad credit. Those loans were then bundled together into exotic derivatives and sold off to financial institutions worldwide; when borrowers began to default on their mortgages, money managers from São Paulo to Seoul suffered huge losses...
...serious side effects in the nearly 20 years hormone blockers have been used in the U.S. to treat early-onset puberty in the short term. Although some U.S. studies show that interrupting puberty can weaken bone density, preliminary findings by the medical center of the Free University in Amsterdam, which has prescribed hormone blockers for about 80 children since 1987, don't suggest any such problems. The blocker treatment is also easily reversible: puberty begins as soon as drug use is discontinued. Otherwise, a child can stay on the blockers until about age 18, when he or she might...
...could be voiced over any government ban. "The legal sale of mushrooms was an awkward situation to start with, and this bill puts that right, parliamentarian Fred Teeven of the right-wing liberal VVD says. But he too admits that upholding prohibition will be hard, and the municipality of Amsterdam has expressed concern that enforcing it will put a heavy burden on the police...