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...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Just recently, Lufthansa unveiled the world's only terminal exclusively for first-class passengers, and announced the start of business-class-only flights across the Atlantic. But not content with these moves to court well-heeled customers, it's played another ace: access to Europe's largest fleet of private jets. Lufthansa's new private-jet service (www.lufthansa-private-jet.com) is operated by NetJets, which pioneered fractional ownership of business aircraft in 1986, and counts among its 5,000 shareholders...
...proteins from animal muscle, creating a coating for chicken nuggets, fish sticks and other foods that prevents excess oil from penetrating beyond the breading or batter. The food looks similar on the outside, but it's not greasy on the inside. That translates into real fat busting: the overall content in fish sticks, for instance, goes from 14 g to as little as 4 g-a 70% drop. Proteus' process is making its debut in fish sticks from the company's local collaborator, Good Harbor Fillet. Someday, it may be used by home cooks as well...
...Whimsical” is a term not often applied to physics. From the lay perspective—or at least from those exposed only to Newtonian mechanics—the connotations of such a word seem diametrically opposite to the content of the field. Yet “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions,” by Professor of Physics Lisa Randall ’83, adds a whole new dimension to physics—figuratively and literally. This informal textbook argues that the universe has more than the traditionally recognized four...
...others, how exactly is an uninformed person supposed to compare them? One might say that colleges must be judged subjectively or by how well they match individual preferences. But it’s difficult for prospective students to know what they want in a college, and so they are content with mere excellence. (It is for this very reason that many find themselves at Harvard.) Any measurement is inevitably incomplete, but any single way of looking at the world usually is. Yet if university rankings are conducted properly, they still have value, regardless of their limited perspective. The real rank...
...Online Journalism Review (OJR). The OJR profiles Wilson as an interesting altruist; the report describes how, after its launch in 2004, the site became popular with American soldiers who then began “having trouble using their credit cards in Iraq to access the paid pornographic content on the site, so he [Wilson] offered them free access if they could show that they were actually soldiers.” The proof was in the pictures. Soldiers began submitting photographic evidence ranging from shots of Middle Eastern road signs to mundane pictures of soldiers on duty to gruesome images...