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...photography, this year's studio theme, "The Body," emphasizes the contemporary art world's renewed interest in figuration since the late 1970s. This subject has clearly provided fodder for many of the works in the show, which range from earnest and literal to playful and abstract. Small paper mach'e sculptures by Jennifer E. Mergel '98 sprout lively appendages from their baseball or bagel-shaped body blobs. In one, two straining neuron-like beings wrestle or dance with the energetic whipping of their interconnected arms. Nearby, another languishes on its side, exhaling through some great orifice or wound--an opening...
...Line Pilots Association (ALPA), will continue their encroachment on APA's turf. "The term regional jet is a misnomer," says Captain Rich Rubin, 47, who pilots a wide-body 767 on long-haul routes out of Miami. "It is a long-range, high-performance jet that flies at Mach .81 at 40,000 ft., like a 767. It will deprive us of our routes, and it will replace MD80s and F-100s [existing 100-seat-plus jets]. With this jet, Pocatello, Idaho, to Dallas becomes a profitable route...
...Blackbird, originally designed in the 1960s for US Air Force strategic reconnaissance, set the record for flying at Mach...
Boeing's projected aircraft would have a baseline design carrying more than 300 passengers, as well as a range of 5800 statute miles, flying at Mach 2.4 [1775 mph] at 60,000 feet [18 kilometers] with four engines each with 50,000 pounds of thrust, according to Harrison. The Concorde currently carries 100 passengers, and has a range of 4000 statute miles flying at Mach...
...least 85,000 feet [26 kilometers] and can fly at as fast as Mach 3," says Podolske. "But, as the air goes through the shockwave, it heats...