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Talk about bad timing. Just last week officials at Continental Airlines proudly unveiled new interior designs for their aircraft. But the spectacle of the troubled carrier showing off its blue-and-gray fabrics and contoured seating reminded airline experts of the old line about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Just a week earlier the airline had veered away from a return trip to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, from which it had emerged four years ago. Instead Continental may try to raise cash by selling off some of its valuable routes and other assets. Like many of its competitors...
Once America's flagship carrier, Pan Am has lost $2 billion over the past decade. After two fruitless years of seeking a buyer or merger partner, the airline has begun to raise cash by selling off its prize assets: international routes. Last month the carrier agreed to sell its U.S.-to-London routes to United for $400 million. Still trying to sell off its Northeastern shuttle, Pan Am is fast running out of marketable assets...
Harvard's 1990 winners include Baruj Benacerraf, chair of the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School; Elkan R. Blout, director of the Division of Biological Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health; George F. Carrier, professor of applied mathematics emeritus; David G. Nathan, professor of pediatrics; and Robert V. Pound, professor of physics emeritus...
...Carrier has directed his mathematical geniustowards a better understanding of tidal waves,fuel efficiency in futuristic aircraft and anuclear winter scenario...
...shift at Smart results from the decision by Terry McDonell, its founding editor, to jump ship from a leaky rowboat to take charge of Esquire, which he likens to "walking onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Eisenhower." The change prompted Smart owner Owen Lipstein to merge his shaky start-up with a proposed rival, Men, and pick up its creators, Peter Kaplan and Chris Kimball, as editor and publishing director. In their vision, everything old is new again: Kaplan says his "new" magazine will attempt to recapture the personality of Esquire circa the 1930s, which he describes...