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...makes one realize just how little time a pilot has to react to a crisis. We tried rudder malfunctions, icing problems, wake turbulence and losing all hydraulic power. In one exercise, pilots are told to point the nose almost directly at the ground and then pull like hell out of the dive. Watching the ground get closer in the Learjet's large cockpit windows was frightening; it felt as if it took forever before we started to climb out. In an emergency, even the best pilots have only a few seconds to do the right thing. Classes like this...
...employs more than 40 architects in her studio in a converted London school, and none has time to doodle: she has projects underway in Germany, Spain, Italy, the United States, Abu Dhabi, Singapore ... Surrounded by young men in T shirts - and after chiding a secretary about where the hell are her airline tickets for Paris the next day - Hadid is philosophical about the turnaround in the fortunes of her designs, which were flowing and flamboyant decades before Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum became the icon of Bilbao in Spain. "It took a long time for people to understand that what...
...were a gift,” Ernesto says, and that is why he made sure he got them back from his girlfriend after they broke up. “I bit the bullet and made her send them back,” he says. “She raised hell about it—but I got them back...
...hunched over the tape recorder as if demanding its attention. He is completely unfazed by the screech of the sirens that occasionally fly by, or the couple giving us dirty looks from the next bench over. His enthusiasm is sincere, and he is determined to give his fans one hell of an interview. “It’s exciting. We don’t read a whole lot of music magazines ’cause we spend so much time touring. But it’s fun to do the interviews.” The sparkle glimmers again...
...sooner released than he is booking his return ticket. Detained after protesting in Rangoon again in 1999, he is sentenced to 17 years and transferred to a solitary cell. While his family and friends orchestrate a campaign to draw attention to his cause, a motivated Mawdsley makes life hell for prison officials, demanding books, exercise time, a radio, everything but HBO. True, his demands are his chief means of challenging the corrupt regime, but there aren't many works of prison literature that can trigger a bit of sympathy for the police state...