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...hours of flight time,” she says. A Cessna can cost more than $100 each hour to rent. Cash-strapped flight aficionados shouldn’t lose hope, though. After negotiating with Hanscom Field in nearby Bedford, Beica is hoping for at least a 5 percent discount on rentals. Additionally, the club would split the costs of renting a plane among members. The ranks of the trained-but-unable (as well as the untrained, wannabe Tom Cruises a la “Top Gun”) are sizeable. Beica received 72 responses to a mass introductory e-mail...

Author: By Xiaofei Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A New Mile High Club | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...greatest success: it subtly, yet candidly, evokes the strange paradox that the more we know about the Holocaust, the less we can claim to understand it. Libeskind’s building is deconstructionist in the fullest sense of the word—challenging those who deny or discount the evil inherent in the Jewish genocide, as well as those who believe that they have found a way to comprehend it. The Jewish Museum not only educates visitors about suffering and hatred, but also allows—and forces—them to experience the confusion, the emptiness, and the silence...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tragedy Given Shape In Berlin | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...appreciated Jeffrey Kluger's article about commemorating 9/11 [Sept. 17]. We should never forget what happened that day, and we still need to resolve the serious issues of rebuilding and, to our shame, taking care of health and property damage. But in a country that celebrates its birth with discount sales, gives passing recognition to Pearl Harbor Day and virtually ignores the ending dates of the two World Wars, the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks needs to be put into perspective. People who lost loved ones will have grieved and marked the occasion in their own way, as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...Pharma's CSR efforts, of course. Ask Festus Mogae, President of Botswana, whose nation has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in Africa. The drug companies, Mogae says, are "very, very important to our efforts to fight AIDS. They fund our projects and sell us drugs at an 85% discount. Their activities have helped sensitize a nation to the whole issue of AIDS. It's having real results. It's not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Halo Effect | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...appreciated Jeffrey Kluger's article about commemorating 9/11 [Sept. 17]. We should never forget what happened that day. But in a country that celebrates its birth with discount sales, gives passing recognition to Pearl Harbor Day and virtually ignores the ending dates of the two World Wars, the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks needs to be put into perspective. People who lost loved ones will have grieved and marked the occasion in their own way, as they should. For the rest of the nation, Sept. 11 should have been a day to look at the calendar, reflect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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