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...water energy in that sector." But he believes the reopening of Don Muang, Thailand's long-serving facility north of the city, can bring relief not just by reducing flight load but because its terminal's rectangular shape makes for better energy collection. It's a proper gateway, in other words. So far, Suvarnabhumi has been more like a creaky door...
...phenomenon started long, long ago (1977) in a galaxy far, far away (San Diego) when a then little-known director named George Lucas attended an intimate comic-book convention to promote a movie called Star Wars. Lucas' films have since become a gateway drug for a generation of movie addicts. And Comic-Con, the San Diego convention of genre buffs, has become a Hollywood must-attend event, albeit one where dressing to impress means dry cleaning your Darth Vader costume. It's significant that this fanboy Christmas happens not in Hollywood but two hours south. The appeal of the species...
...politicians succeeds where state-mandated prevention programs of teaching civics and history in schools fail. Students leave knowing that government concentrations, debate teams, and The Washington Post aren’t bits of recreational fun with buddies to be “cool,” but rather the gateway to the brutal reality of being a policy-pusher...
...hobby. Parks left her native Midwest to work in Southern California, rising swiftly to become a respected executive in the paper industry. In 1994, during the height of the telecom frenzy, she jumped to US West's Denver headquarters to run a $2.6 billion division. In 2000 computer maker Gateway lured her away to a similar position out of San Diego. And in 2002 Dallas-based Kinko's crowned her head of operations, the office-services company...
...just an opportunity to send people 100 or so kilometers (62 miles) into the sky and to have a good time for 10 minutes for a lot of money," he says. "If we get it right, it will be the start of something extraordinary. It will open the gateway to a lot of innovation in space travel...