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...solo flight around the world is the last great milestone in the history of aviation. Or it was. On March 1 the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, designed by Burt Rutan (who also designed the first civilian spacecraft, SpaceShipOne), took off from an airfield in a small town in Kansas; 67 hr. 2 min. 38 sec. and 23,000 miles later, the aviation world had reached another milestone. GlobalFlyer is so light (at takeoff, its weight is 83% fuel) and so aerodynamic (with a 114-ft. wingspan) that it has to use drag parachutes to help it get back down...
...eating, dressing and working in an international environment. At Shanghai's June Yamada Academy, students pay $900 for a multiweek course during which they dine at a five-star hotel and learn the difference between a fish knife and a butter knife. Meanwhile, at a Shanghai etiquette workshop for HR managers, instructor Liu Wei plucks a man out of the crowd and castigates him for his multihued pink tie. "It's a well-known fact that President Clinton's good taste in ties won him many votes," says...
...village in Cambodia and put an end to his medical education and his freedom. He laughs about the nearly four years he endured in a forced-labor camp, the decade he spent working with tuberculosis patients in refugee camps along the Thailand-Cambodia border. He laughs about the 20-hr. days he put in getting the NGO he co-founded, the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC), off the ground--the only work that was harder than Khmer Rouge re-education. The one thing Sok Thim, 48, takes absolutely seriously is the right of every patient--no matter how poor, no matter...
...than he put into it and will make $50,000 to $70,000 per year as personal-training director at a Gold's Gym in St. Petersburg, Fla. But go in with reasonable expectations. "You can't imagine how many people I've interviewed who want the $100 [per hr.] celebrity clientele right away," says McCann. "You have to be ready to work...
...hr. 48 min. Time that Suresh Joachim spent last week in New York City watching TV, a new Guinness world record...