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...played tennis and lost. George was tired, and I played lousy.'' So wrote former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in his diary on June 4, 1975. The George who was tired that day was Bush's son and current President George W. Bush - jet-lagged, no doubt, because the court they played on was in Beijing. "Bush 43" was then fresh out of Harvard Business School, and "Bush 41" was chief of the first U.S. Liaison Office in China's capital - the de facto embassy just before Beijing and Washington re-established full diplomatic relations...
...take a taxi to my friend's briskly air-conditioned apartment, do some sightseeing, and fall asleep at 11 p.m. Wake up at 6 a.m. The travel gods are smiling on me: no jet lag, and the weather is gorgeous...
BARCELONA, Spain — On the first night of my summer study abroad program, our teaching fellow led 15 jet-lagged Harvard students through the narrow streets of Barcelona’s Old City to a restaurant off La Rambla, the city’s touristy yet iconic nucleus, which slices through the original part of the city. Brought to a long table on the roof deck of the short building, we met our professor and his family. The sun was setting, the wine flowed freely, and it felt like we could have been in the countryside rather than...
...wrote George Herbert Walker Bush in his diary on June 4, 1975. The "George" who was tired that day was his son, George W. Bush - jet lagged, no doubt, because the tennis court they played on was in Beijing. 'Bush 43' was then fresh out of the Harvard Business School, and 'Bush 41' was chief of the first United States Liason Office in Beijing - the de facto embassy that had opened after Richard Nixon's historic opening to China...
...path. Architects installed cleaning-supply closets at the gates to assist flight crews in maintaining a fast 30-minute plane turnaround time, and JetBlue hopes that each gate will turn over 10 flights daily, compared with an average three flights per gate per day for other airlines - that rate, Jet Blue says, should help keep ticket prices relatively...