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...Emirates faces some obstacles on its way to achieving its world-class ambitions. Fifty-dollars-a-barrel oil has hit the airline hard: it has instituted a wide-scale hiring freeze and delayed starting service to San Francisco and other U.S. cities. The neighborhood is getting crowded as well: the government of Abu Dhabi--next door to Dubai--has just launched not one but two carriers: Etihad Airlines and low-fare Gulf Traveller. The emirate of Sharjah last year started Air Arabia. Doha-based Qatar Airlines, meanwhile, is improving and expanding. Then there is the reality that Dubai...
...fast times at right now” deftly combines their powerful guitar skills with fiery vocals that fiercely question the lifestyle choices of the addressed (“You wake up in the morning and instantly you regret that, too/staring down the barrel of ex-punk…guilty of a self-indulgent haircut/turning turncoat on us”). Perhaps most thought-provoking is the last song, titled, “I truly love you but I cannot sing…”, which has no vocals but nevertheless lists lyrics on the back of the CD?...
...officer reported to Science Center because of a report about a trash barrel having caught fire. The responding officer extinguished the “minor” fire, which he or she speculated had been caused by a discarded cigarette...
...varsity football player. You can probably tell that after one look at my 18-inch neck or my barrel chest, complete with matching gut. Or maybe you recognize me from the football game (probably not) or walking out of The Magic of Numbers final exam (probably so). Either way, I’m a varsity football player. And also, I’m a little bitch...
Given Sears' strong legs and barrel chest, it's hard to imagine, but at that time, he says, he thought he was "washed up physically." So it was pretty much on a lark (and to fill up all those landlocked hours) that he drove to Mexico in a little pop-up cabover camper, with his old 9 ft. 6 in. long board strapped to the shell because, why not? "What a wonderful physical experience!" an exuberant Sears says of his time that first winter on a little-known beach in southern Baja. "You know, it all came back...