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...Ironically, the plane's unique emergency equipment was useless in this case. Each Cirrus plane has a large parachute that can be deployed to allow a plane in trouble to float safely to the ground. Several Cirrus planes and their pilots have been saved by their parachutes, and the chute apparently gave Lidle an impressive amount of confidence in his $187,000 plane. "The whole plane has a parachute on it," Lidle told the New York Times last month. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land...
...human rights arena was questioned by Hamilton, the moderator. The Darfur genocide is increasingly seen internationally as an “America-centric” cause, she said, even as America’s “credibility on human rights is going, if not gone down, the chute right now.” Both Hamilton and others still pushed the audience to advocate on behalf of the Sudanese people. “Even if the genocides stopped tomorrow, our work is not done. I challenge people to buy into this over the long haul,” Hammond said...
...occurred while processing this directive] they'll purchase only 10% more cameras than a year ago - 103.2 million versus 93.8 million. That's nothing, considering that in 2005 sales jumped by 27%, in 2004 by 51% and in 2003 by 73%. "We're reaching a saturation point," says Chris Chute, an analyst with IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts. "Some of the weak vendors below 8% market share will have to reconsider their place." The big picture is one of a shrinking market: IDC predicts that global growth will soon vanish as sales flatten in 2009 at 111.1 million cameras, and then...
...vendors to try to stimulate that growth," says Withington. That means that consumers are in for a treat of more features at lower prices, as camera makers constantly improve their wares. "It's all a ridiculous affirmation of how capitalism increases selection for low price," says IDC's Chute. Creative destruction, you might say; we'll see how many camera companies survive...
...like David Chute and other sophisticated fanciers of Hong Kong films, the collective migrated from one old colony of the British Empire to another: India, which produces upwards of a thousand movies a year, and which has a vibrant movie vocabulary every bit exotic as, if less transgressive than, Hong Kong?s. They foraged through other Asian film industries, not as colonizers but explorers, and found colorful native trinkets in countries that rarely saw their films released in stateside theaters. The result of their treks was what they now call the New York Asian Film Festival, or NYAFF - which sounds...