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...listen to music to try to calm down and just get into my comfort zone. I listen to a lot of Jay-Z before the games. I'm not nervous because I'm afraid. I'm nervous because I'm excited...
...efficient commercial jetliner in history. To date, 47 carriers have ordered 677 of the planes. Carbon fiber composites make up 50% of the plane's material by weight (compared with only 12% in Boeing's last released jetliner, the 777), enabling Boeing to offer cost savings and more passenger comfort to airlines. But now that the celebrating is over, Boeing will need to buckle down to get the first jetliner of six ready for flight tests beginning in early September...
...object strongly to the image of the Chadian family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25--July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, LAGOS...
Eating Around the World I object strongly to the image of the Chadian family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25-July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, lagos...
...between the wars, it consisted of floor-to-ceiling glass on all four sides, which was supported by eight steel piers on a brick platform. Not so much a house as the Platonic ideal of a house, it was also an affront to ordinary notions of domesticity and creaturely comfort, and this at a time when not many office buildings, much less country retreats, had adopted the glass-box look. Johnson's only concession to privacy was a tall brick cylinder set indoors that contained a bathroom. To avoid disturbing the immaculate planes of his design, during...