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...alone in my affection. Kai Tak closed five years ago this month, but many still refer to it like a much-loved, weirdo uncle who's no longer around?one who will be forever remembered because he broke all the rules and made you gasp while doing so. Indeed, the airport's closure was another nail in the coffin for the era of romantic travel?Kai Tak was the last embodiment of an age when commercial flying was a buzz. Even an airline amenity kit became a novelty when you flew into Hong Kong: the supplied blindfold...
These newfangled death rites may make traditionalists gasp. But some experts see them as a positive development. "For a long time, people were removed from the process, letting professionals arrange these elaborate but impersonal ceremonies," says Sarah York, a Unitarian Universalist minister and the author of Remembering Well: Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death. But she cautions that however people choose to commemorate their loved ones, they still have to deal with the loss. "You may want a happy service instead of a downer, but it's also a time to mourn and let go and grieve," she says...
Over the course of their first year, however, the group managed to accrue a surprising amount of publicity. The reason? A chart documenting the astonishing amount of “dormcest,” “floorcest” and even (gasp!) “roomcest” was posted in the hallway, and it wasn’t long before FM reported in April 2000 that while “ranking last in freshman intramurals, Pennypacker has more than offset the blemish with other extracurricular activities...
...illness. As no biographer before him has done, Dallek has assembled medical records to speculate about the effect of so many ailments and drugs upon Kennedy's conduct in the White House. The first revelation of his ailments, in the Atlantic Monthly late in 2002, drew a collective gasp from presidential historians...
...Saddam's performance turned out to be the dying gasp of his bloody regime. His supposed defense of Iraq and the greater Arab nation came down to a hollow spectacle. And by Wednesday it had given way to the long-awaited TV images of Iraqis cheering his overthrow. The scenes were particularly jubilant in the Baghdad neighborhood called Saddam City, a dense housing project for Shiite Muslims - a community historically excluded from political power in Iraq. All over the city, the ubiquitous statues of Saddam are being destroyed...