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Boeing's unveiling of the new 787 Dreamliner, auspiciously timed for 7/8/07, drew a crowd of 15,000 employees and their guests to Boeing's Everett, Wash., facility in a manner fitting for what is the most successful, fuel-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...
...carriers and supplier-partners culminated in Sunday's event, as former TV news anchor Tom Brokaw hosted the 787 Dreamliner premiere from a stage set up in Boeing's 40-36 Building, a sprawling 10-sq. acre facility north of Seattle. In addition to the 15,000 gathered in Everett (wearing badges that read "Success Runs in the Family"), about 25,000 Boeing employees and retirees also watched the broadcast from the Seattle Seahawks' 50,000-seat stadium rented for the occasion. The event, broadcast to 45 countries in nine languages, had all the trappings of a network media event...
While the state senate seat has been held by the progressive Barrios since 2002, political analyst Glenn S. Koocher '71 said that Wolf, a former Cambridge mayor, might have had a tough time attracting votes in less liberal parts of the district, such as Everett and Revere...
Neither Wolf nor Barrios, who is leaving his post to lead the Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, has endorsed any candidate for the senate seat, which also includes parts of Everett, Somerville, Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Saugus...
...Everett I. Mendelsohn, who will retire this spring after six decades at Harvard, said last week that Summers’ presence on the committee became a problem...