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...make a living. His father, a Marine helicopter pilot, died in Vietnam months before Norton's birth to a Japanese mother, who passed away when he was 19. It took him eight years to work his way through college. He has guided Japanese tourists in Hawaii, sold chocolate in Jamaica, exported sea urchins from Maine, managed real estate in New York City and translated for the Mets and the Yankees. His nose for opportunity led him to law school. "I figured there was a market for Japanese-speaking lawyers," he says. There was. Since 2002 he has practiced intellectual-property...
...copes with the premature arrival of Daylight Saving Time? Be thankful you weren't screaming across the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. Air Force's newest jet, the $330-million F-22 Raptor. Six of the jets - that's $2 billion worth of air power - had taken off from Hawaii en route to Japan when several of their computer systems went haywire and literally could not tell what...
...began affecting the Global Positioning System and communications links on the jets, Air Force officials say. While one pilot was able to contact prime contractor Lockheed Martin during the flight to try to fix the problem, the planes were nevertheless forced to return to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. They forlornly had to follow the KC-135 aerial tankers that were to have refueled them during the trans-Pacific flight...
...these start-ups because we cover the bases," says Woody Harford, BA's senior vice president of sales and marketing for North America. BA and American regard their worldwide networks and frequent-flyer miles as key retention devices. "If you don't invest in flying to Hawaii or the Caribbean, you lose an edge when you're competing in a J.F.K.-Heathrow market," says Mary Sanderson, spokeswoman for American Airlines, which has 18% of the J.F.K.-Heathrow seats and just invested $20 million to upgrade its 767s. "MAXjet is offering what we did in business 15 years ago," says Harford...
...harsh winter conditions brought Tatiana Wilson ’09 to UHS seeking to brighten up her life. Wilson, a native of Hawaii, signed up for a UHS light box in December...