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...mantel in her home in Tampa, Fla. Jones, 40, began working for American in 1985. "I love airports, the excitement, the electricity, people going places," she says. "I would go to the airport even before I had a job and just hang out. I like the smell of jet fuel." But after Sept. 11, Jones started thinking about another career. She began taking college courses with the idea of getting her degree and becoming a paralegal. After the shoe-bomber incident, she desperately wanted to quit and found herself withdrawing from friends, spending most of her days sleeping. At night...
...degrees]F Estimated temperature of the fires ignited by the jet fuel...
...Yuen directed such classic martial arts films as Fong Sai Yuk and Hong Xiguan zhi Shaolin Wu Zu (released this year on DVD in the U.S. as Legend of the Red Dragon). He also choreographed Jet Li in seven action films. The director's flair for building memorable kung fu moments has put him in high demand in the U.S., where he has been asked by several studios to reshoot some of his earlier works in English. Sitting in a hotel suite overlooking the Hong Kong skyline, the jovial director insists his movies are not only about violent engagements...
...like to make another movie with three women again." But he's tempted enough to be mapping out some tentative plans. For a start, Yuen says he would want to film at least some of the sequel outside Hong Kong and might use English as the main language. Aspiring Jet Lis should start practicing their killer kicks...
...even going into the conference, there was widespread skepticism over whether the goals stated in such declarations (even if they did contain precise targets and timelines - which they don't - they're not enforceable, anyway) justify the environmental impact of the jet-fuel used to fly some 10,000 summiteers and about five times as many camp followers to South Africa for the event. Indeed, the Johannesburg summit was originally intended as a followup to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, whose lofty proclamations went the way of most lofty proclamations. The perennial failure of such summits to produce meaningful...