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Main dishes are consistently satisfying, with no mistaking among six but must order carefully. It is not apparent to the menu reader that Ta Chien chicken, scholar's dry-fried jumbo shrimp, and rose shrimp are all as similar as adjoining arms of Ta Chien's China...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...million people last year. Passengers are whisked from the central terminal to outlying gates by a rubber-tired subway that travels at 26 m.p.h. The airport owes its roominess to a five-year building program, completed in 1973, in which two giant, remote terminals were constructed to accommodate jumbo jets. As a result, Sea-Tac has become a popular connection point for travelers flying to Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Seattle-Tacoma's record for on-time departures, currently 87%, falls short of the performance of such fair-weather airports as Dallas-Fort Worth and Phoenix, which often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seattle-Tacoma International. Airport: Not Enough Places to Land | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Main dishes are consistently satisfying, with no mistaking among six but must order carefully. It is not apparent to the menu reader that Ta Chien chicken, scholar's dry-fried jumbo shrimp, and rose shrimp are all as similar as adjoining arms of Ta Chien's China...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

...cruising at 40,000 ft. Last week Northwest Airlines rolled out a Boeing 747 equipped with Airvision, a video system that allows passengers to watch their choice of anything from movies to cartoons on a 3-in. color TV mounted in the back of the seat just ahead. The jumbo jet will fly primarily between Detroit and Tokyo, but if a four-month trial of Airvision earns big ratings from customers, Northwest may install the video service on other planes. Airvision Inc., a joint venture of Warner Bros. and the Netherlands' Philips, supplies the TV sets for the service, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INNOVATION: Taking Off, Tuning In | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...accounts, Jobs' new machine is an engineering marvel. People who have seen prototypes describe a sleek, black magnesium cube with a space underneath where a keyboard can be neatly hidden away, a stereo sound system that rivals the crisp tones of a compact-disc player, and a jumbo 17-inch black-and-white display screen capable of visual pyrotechnics that are often characterized as "drop dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Case of the Missing Machine | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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