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Nonetheless, planes are running at an impressive 73% capacity, say Emirates' executives. "We have a very good product, and there is no shame in seeking to retain pricing at the highest possible level," says Mannion. Hermann Michel, an Austrian who was recently hired away from Singapore Airlines as a catering manager, jokes about why Emirates takes service so seriously: "What do you talk about when you get off a long flight--how good the fuel...
...Alfred Kinsey published his report on Americans' previously concealed sex lives. The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller, for his work in developing the "miracle" compound DDT. Fourteen years later, during the Kennedy Administration, the New Yorker would begin serializing Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. George Orwell transposed two numbers...
Heading into the world championships under way in Bormio, Italy, Miller ranked first in the overall World Cup standings, piling up an impressive lead over Austrians Benny Raich and Hermann Maier. At the worlds, Miller has brightened his stardom in typical falling-off-the-planet fashion. During the super-G--the second fastest race after the downhill--Miller took a jump off-kilter at 65 m.p.h., struggled to stay on his skis and still won the race by a nail-biting margin. In the combined downhill and slalom, he lost a ski--and the race...
...playing résumé stretches from the collegiate level with the Tigers to international competition, making him one of the most accomplished assistant coaches in the country. In Cambridge, he will be coaching alongside of one of the most accomplished players-turned-coach in Kerr, who won the Hermann Trophy in his time at ACC-rival Duke...
DIED. THOMAS GOLD, 84, subversive astrophysicist whose brilliant and often heretical scientific theories dealt with everything from the mechanics of the human ear to the origin of the universe; in Ithaca, N.Y. In 1948, with fellow physicists Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi, he proposed the steady-state theory of cosmology, which suggested that the universe is constantly producing matter and infinitely expanding. This philosophy, which flew in the face of the more widely held Big Bang theory, was elegant but ultimately proved flawed. Gold's daring explanation of pulsars, however--that they are rapidly spinning neutron stars--was a winner...