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Twenty-four hours following arrival: Traveler is in jet lag-induced delirium. Hello, there, Mr. Sandwich. How are you today? I am going to eat you now; I hope you don?t mind...
...Even occasional travelers know it well: That cobwebby, vaguely woozy feeling that descends into the crevices of consciousness after a long, time zone jumping flight. For most of us, jet lag fades over the course of a day or two, during which time we may feel the need to take illicit and ill-advised nap - right in the middle of the afternoon! For flight attendants and pilots who make their living traversing the globe, however, the effects of jet lag may be a bit more serious...
...Does this mean that every time you take a transatlantic flight you?re putting your future mental functioning at risk? Not necessarily; the study?s authors point out these results could have been linked more clearly to sleep deprivation than to jet lag. But isn?t it fun to speculate...
Some wonder whether coziness with powerful people, combined with a jocular streak and a touch of intellectual arrogance, led Ibrahim into trouble, across so-called red lines set by Egypt's security establishment. Before his arrest, he liked to jet around to global conferences and sound off in the Western and Arab press. A friend recalls once recoiling when Mubarak arrived late for a meeting and Ibrahim demanded to know why he had kept them waiting. His first defense lawyer quit after Ibrahim detailed his detention in a public lecture dubbed, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." "He has guts...
...Starting at 7 a.m., and at least every two hours after that, the FAA's air traffic managers, the airlines, and - starting next month - the business jet crowd, get on a conference call to talk about the weather. These conversations aren't the ones you have at the bus stop: these are short, intense and often heated discussions about who has to pay when Mother Nature starts throwing her weight around with storms that can bobble...