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...Pity the world's glitterati?Greek-island hopping is losing its glory. Hedonistic hippies and the bourgeoisie have taken it up as their summer sport, turning the once-exclusive pastime into a budget-travel clich?. So what's a multimillionaire to do? Follow in the footsteps of shipping magnate and Jackie Kennedy hubby Aristotle Onassis and buy your very own island, of course. With more than 1,400 isles dotting the country's brilliant blue seas, yet less than 200 of them inhabited, Greece is a natural attraction for island shoppers who want to enjoy clear waters, sandy beaches...
...situation. While it’s impossible to eradicate all risk, every possible step must be taken to minimize it, even at higher costs. Excepting the Peru crash that was the result of inclement weather, the other three major accidents are thought to have technical causes. The Greek jet, it is said, suffered a sudden loss in cabin pressure that could have resulted from failures in the air conditioning system. The Venezuelan twin-engine failure could have been either because of fuel contamination or maintenance malfunction (and is the second fatal flight this year by low-cost provider West Caribbean...
Nelson has served as associate dean for Greek affairs at Cornell since 1998, overseeing the registration, recognition, and advisement of 67 fraternities and sororities with around 3,500 students each year. Prior to her stint at Cornell, Nelson, who has been working in higher education for almost two decades, was the director of the Office of Greek Life at Syracuse University...
...abstract expressionists began enlarging their canvases back in the late 1940s, American paintings have been getting bigger and bigger. To show the lengths?and heights?that artists are going to nowadays, Manhattan's Jewish Museum this week put on display 23 mural-size paintings ... The largest, Al Held's Greek Garden, is a breathtaking panorama of cabalistic circles, squares and triangles that measures 12 ft. [3.5 m] high?and 56 ft. [17 m] long. The museum's curator, Kynaston McShine, who selected the paintings, unpretentiously bills his exhibit as an 'airy, informal, summer exhibition of big, beautiful paintings...
Eerie accounts from Greek fighter pilots of a co-pilot slumped over the Helios 737's controls before that crash have experts asking if the oxygen tanks provided for decompression emergencies were not filled--the kind of maintenance mistake that stricter oversight might help prevent. The solution, says aviation analyst John Nance, is "total standardization now--and more intolerance of those countries that fail to comply with it." --By Tim Padgett and Sally B. Donnelly