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...ushered in the dawn of mass jet travel - and the country has many dilapidated airports to show for it. The good news is that passengers tired of dank, aging facilities can now look forward to more comfortable journeys, with the fruits of a late 1990s terminal-building boom finally being realized. A slew of ultra-modern facilities has been unveiled in 10 American cities, including Seattle, Miami, Detroit, New York City and Los Angeles. The latest and swankiest is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's $1.4 billion Terminal D: a sprawling, 185,801-sq-m structure that brings...
...slash kung fu with fashionable explorations of anomie? Would the Riviera sunlight cook his brain until he was convinced that he must forsake epic gangster cinema for experiments in narrative impenetrability? Would Hong Kong's action godfather, the man who introduced the world to John Woo and Jet Li, lose his Hong Kongness...
...film industry has suffered a power drain in recent years, as no new performers have proved capable of filling the shoes of fleeing stars like Chow. Yen can knock out 100 bad guys without breaking into a sweat, but as the romantic lead in Swords, he makes the stolid Jet Li look like Cary Grant. The actresses Charlie Yeung and Korean Kim So Yuen barely register...
...republicanos se han mofado de ?l por ser un manipulador de la prensa y ?ltimamente por la compra de un jet de $5.5 millones (que Richardson asegura sirve a todas las agencias del estado). Pero al mismo tiempo goza del benepl?cito de los conservadores por sus recortes de las tasas de impuestos estatales. Entre sus logros se encuentra el haber convertido a Nuevo M?xico en el primer estado que provee seguro de vida a los miembros del ej?rcito que se encuentran activos, iniciativa que ha sido ampliamente copiada por otros...
DIED. JOHN JOHNSON, 87, rags-to-riches publishing entrepreneur who launched Ebony and Jet a half-century ago to inject positive images of African Americans into mass media, and whose life was perhaps more inspiring than that of any of the people featured on the cover of his magazines; in Chicago. The grandson of slaves, Johnson used his mother's furniture to get a $500 loan in 1942 that 40 years later had grown into a publishing empire big enough to make him the first African American to snag a spot on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans...