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...After all, cramped conditions can lead to stress, and even disruptive and unruly behavior, but no one is blaming the airlines for air rage. "DVT has been around for a long time. It's linked to immobility, not flying," states Patrick Garrett of Cathay Pacific. Says Japan Airline's (JAL) Yoshie Otaka: "Basically it's a matter of primary self care...
...passengers, the challenges have spurred change: regulatory authorities are looking into the matter, and many airlines are upgrading their health advice to customers and crew, as well as assisting World Health Organization research begun in Geneva in March designed to settle the debate once and for all. Says a JAL executive: "The general line is that travelers should exercise their own common sense and not rely on airlines to play 'nanny.' But in this increasingly litigious world, that is a role we may have to play more prominently...
...Transport Association advised all airlines to tell travelers of the risk of DVT when they make reservations. Airbus reports that buyers of its new 550-seat A-380 aircraft have expressed an interest in putting treadmills on board. And some airlines are already providing exercise information to passengers. JAL is showing a new nine-minute in-flight exercise video that refers to DVT. Emirates gives passengers the "Airogym," a sort of half inflated water wing, which they squash with one foot and then the other, pushing the air back and forth. And Taiwan-based China Airlines is introducing new seats...
What Kolesnikov did in deciding to describe his position and entrapment, others have also done--in states of repose or terror. When a JAL airliner went down in 1985, passengers used the long minutes of its terrible, spiraling descent to write letters to loved ones. When the last occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto had finally seen their families and companions die of disease or starvation, or be carried off in trucks to extermination camps, and there could be no doubt of their own fate, still they took scraps of paper on which they wrote poems, thoughts, fragments of lives, rolled...
...match up with those held by Harvard. As we leave Harvard and go our separate ways, we need to remember that Harvard's ethos is only one among many, and that lifelong happiness will only come when each of us finds a place with an ethos we can share. Jal D. Mehta'99, a social studies concentrator in Eliot House, was executive editor of The Crimson...