Word: jumbos
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...overemphasized the importance of neural activity and brain physiology and made no mention of the need for moral guidance. Teenagers may read between the lines of the physiological mumbo jumbo and giggle with glee as they decide there is nothing they can do to change their ways. Why not discuss how dysfunctional family situations affect teen behavior? There is more to raising a teenager than studying the brain. CECIL ASFOUR Dallas...
...World Trade Center bombing--and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the plot's masterminds. An accomplice of Yousef's, Abdul Hakim Murad, who learned to fly at a U.S. flight school, tells interrogators he and Yousef discussed a plan to fly a small plane packed with explosives or a hijacked jumbo jet into the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters or into other American targets...
Frenchman Zacarias Moussaoui begins training at a Minneapolis flight school after writing instructors that he wants to learn how to fly jumbo jets. His teachers discover he has almost no flight knowledge but wants to train on the 747 simulator. The manager reports Moussaoui's suspicious behavior to the local FBI office. Agents question Moussaoui and then have the INS arrest him for staying too long without a visa...
...debris that litters the universe, junk space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet"). His highest goal is to restore possibilities for human interaction of whatever kind. Congestion and sprawl he sees as advantages. The posthuman megalopolises of the 21st century--Tokyo, Atlanta, Shanghai--are just so many jumbo opportunities. On the other hand, he is sick to death of skyscrapers, which he considers vertical cylinders that isolate people instead of putting them into circulation with one another. "It's hypocritical for anyone to argue that skyscrapers are part of civil society and public space," says Koolhaas...
...problems and come up with palatable solutions. Will anyone in corporate America step up to the plate and eliminate the evils of trans fats or high fructose corn syrup, repackage products with smaller portion sizes (like the eight ounce soda cans sold in parts of Europe), or even discontinue jumbo single serving product lines? What role should the government take? Is it necessary to place a “fat tax” on Double-Stuffed Oreos and Doritos? What about parents? Will they ensure that five year-old Johnny will not Supersize his Mountain Dew, and that...