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KEVIN AND NATE were asleep in the back of the van. Our driver, Head Moonie of the State of New Hampshire, was regaling Dave and me with bawdy tales of his geopolitical adventures with the Reverend Moon...
...Chateau Margaux from crystal goblets with triangular silver bases, lounge on the jet's cream-colored chamois-and-silk banquettes. His masseur, his valet, his barber and his chiropractor -- they accompany him everywhere -- are relaxing as well because "A.K.," as he is known to his employees, is fast asleep on the $200,000 Russian sable spread covering his 10-ft.-wide bed in one of the plane's three bedrooms...
...King Abdul Aziz, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. From his father, Khashoggi says, he learned the difference between compassion and realism, as well as the value of giving as a prelude to receiving. Khashoggi recalls that one oppressive summer afternoon when he was eight, he discovered a beggar asleep on the front steps. Knowing of Islam's emphasis on charity, Adnan brought the man inside, gave him some food and said he could sleep in the hall. When his father returned that evening, Adnan expected great praise but got a lecture instead. "You've ruined this man's life...
...large airliners, passengers have another reason to be uneasy. After studying 30 cockpit flight-crew members, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a professor at the Harvard Medical School, discovered that on long high-altitude flights, the cockpit crew is sometimes asleep. The pilots, copilots and navigators he interviewed admitted that they have either nodded off on the job or had to struggle not to do so an average of 16 times a month. This usually happens sometime between 4 and 5 in the morning. In other research, Moore-Ede discovered an incident in which a transcontinental flight missed its Los Angeles...
...BayBanks installs automatic teller machines in the pillars of Memorial Church. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter Gomes delivers a six-hour address, "Automatic Teller Machines and Our Puritan Tradition." The address makes no sense, but the audience is asleep and fails to notice...