Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often does around this time, Bob Martin, 47, is standing on his head. Martin has just finished another frenzied day as a patent attorney at Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters, but instead of plunging into rush-hour traffic, he has descended one flight of stairs to the company's yoga studio. Soft music flutes through the room as half a dozen practitioners, high heels and neckties stowed in nearby lockers, bend and breathe to their instructor's directions. "It's wonderful," Martin says, rolling back to his feet. "I come down here and I let everything that...
...frequently appears that the director is in flight from the severity of the family relationships that comprise the bulk of the script. It is plausible that with an expert ensemble and less sluggish staging and pacing, this play might present the possibility for some very comic moments...
...Later that day, my impulse flight provoked a stern reprimand from my parents, now deprived of the satisfaction of a neat set of 3x5s. And though I felt a slight pang of guilt when my father pointed out that he still had my six-year-old face in his wallet-window, regret quickly passed. To be honest, I have always been camera-shy and the lens has never been particularly kind in return...
...maneuver called The Superman. When students are filing out of class, you grab on to the hold-on bar in a compartment and do a mini chin up, lifting your legs to get airborne. Note: You need hordes of Chem 10 students spinning through the doors to fuel your flight. Without them, your free, dizzyingly enjoyable circular ride is going nowhere...
...mystery of Payne Stewart's last flight may sound like "X-Files" material, but investigators believe a simple case of depressurization may have killed the star golfer and his five fellow travelers. The miracle is that the only victims in Monday?s tragedy were the six people aboard the Learjet that was carrying Stewart to a Texas tournament. "Once its crew were incapacitated, that plane was like an artillery shell crossing at least a dozen busy air routes at 400 or 500 miles an hour from Florida to the Dakotas," says TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "It was an extremely...