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When Lauren McCollum took up flying again last spring, after a 15-year break, she wanted a plane that she could take far and fast. But as a long-lapsed pilot, the Los Angeles property developer did not want an aircraft that would intimidate her. Her flight instructor suggested an airplane that McCollum hadn't even heard of. One demonstration flight later, she was hooked on a Cirrus SR22, a sleek and powerful four-seater whose designers are trying to reinvent the small plane, not to mention the small-plane industry. "I'm a techno-nerd," says McCollum, "and when...
...toward adoption of a law that balances creditor and debtor interests.) Ownership requires participation in the decision making; as World Bank president James Wolfensohn has put it, the "country should be in the driver's seat." While critics have said that effective control remains in the hands of the instructor (the IMF and World Bank), the fact is that - especially in many of the World Bank's country programs - there has been a real change in the relationship. Today, even the IMF recognizes the importance of ownership. The Fund's poverty-reduction strategy papers introduced in 2000, for example, which...
Looking for a way to avoid the dreaded plane drain of business trips? Airplane Yoga, by journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt and yoga instructor Bess Abrahams, presents Hatha yoga--inspired exercises designed to fight flight fatigue. The guide gives flyers ways to stretch and relax at each leg of the journey, from security to baggage claim. Exercises include Heavy-Luggage Hand Stretches, Red-Eye Foot Flexes and Deplaning Pep Walks. Drawings accompany the easy-to-understand text, and many moves use available props like waiting-area chairs, meal trays and barf bags (the last are wrung to release wrist tension...
...could ponder the question, the light turned green, and I instinctively punched the gas pedal. The Benz accelerated like a Thoroughbred finally allowed to run. At 90 m.p.h., I straddled the double yellow lane divider in case I needed the whole road. I kept trying to remember what instructor Dave Golder--who had taken me for a ride at 175 m.p.h. the day before--told me is the key to high-speed driving: "soft hands and no brakes." Or was that no brains...
...portal are all users from the old CriticalMass website, a site Greenspan created last year to act as a venue for feedback about classes and professors. Greenspan worried that with enough information, a student might be linked to what he or she had said previously about a class or instructor...