Word: amsterdams
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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...
...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...
...doubt he means it. But to Ab Klink, the Dutch Minister for Health, the ban is about public health and social order. Roughly a hundred tourists a year are driven away in an Amsterdam ambulance after mushroom consumption. The fact that almost all incidents involve foreign tourists led Klink to the conclusion, he says, that "it is absolutely undesirable that citizens of neighboring countries run these health risks." But the ban could end up promoting other mind-blowing compounds, some of which pack more punch - and carry more risks - than magic mushrooms...
...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...