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...stoplight. I look forward to an escalator. I look forward to an elevator where I have to not look at the other person because I can bang out an email and then when I get back, I look forward to delays for a flight. I look forward to that wait time in a hotel lobby. Then when I check into the hotel, I don't have to open up the laptop and then start working again. It's done...
...launched models that will rival it. To date, Embraer alone has already sold 127 of its 50- to 100-seat aircraft to Chinese airlines. Manufacturers in Japan and Russia also plan to field brand-new regional jets within the next three to five years. With the ARJ21's maiden flight set for next year, "China has a head start," says George Haley, head of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. "But it won't last long...
Renting a Cessna: $100 per hour. Hiring a flight instructor: $45 per hour. Being able to legitimately rock those aviator sunglasses: priceless. While flying—and style—can run up a hefty bill, one freshman is hoping to bring at least the former to Harvard’s campus. Emanual C. Beica ’11 doesn’t have a driver’s license, but he did qualify for his private pilot’s license when he was 17 and has an advanced ground instructor certificate. Beica is organizing an aviation club...
What can be changed, however, is the way doctors listen to their patients' health concerns. If a woman complains of chest pain, for example, but says it only bothers her when she's feeling "worked up" - but not on the treadmill or climbing a flight of stairs - her physician should interpret her emotional state as a real, physical risk factor, says Brotman. "The trigger is emotional, and physicians tend to blow that off," he says. "Traditional Western medicine has really endeavored to think of the body as a machine, and disease as how the machine breaks down. [Doctors...
...lymphatic tissue that in turn alters our immune functions, or they might simply cause the resting heart to beat faster. "Anybody who has almost been hit by a bus knows how much emotional stress can rev up your cardiovascular system," says Brotman. "But having frequent bouts of fight or flight is not something we're designed to do." That's where chronic stressors become physical threats...