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...nicotine patches - or use this trip as a head start on quitting. Everyone else, however, should be delighted with the world's longest range passenger jet, the Airbus A340-500. It comes into service for the first time anywhere on Dec. 1, when Emirates airlines takes it on a maiden voyage from Dubai to Sydney. Flying time will be 14 hours, but these tireless behemoths can handle journeys of 17 hours or more, and Emirates has additional plans to deploy its fleet of eight A340s on journeys to North America and New Zealand. Other airlines are planning to deploy...
...will look like. But this is how powerful the test has become: many schools are already worrying about how to change their curriculums to fit the new exam--even though the College Board has yet to finish a first draft of the first test booklet. The maiden administration isn't until March 2005. (The name of the test will be, simply, SAT. The letters now stand for nothing; the "New" is a temporary marketing term...
...Tang-dynasty ceramic animals--each worth about $10,000 in the West--the young Feng felt a touch of proprietary pride. "I risked my life for those statues," he says. "But when they came up with such expensive things, I was hooked." Feng, who was paid $45 for his maiden raid, doesn't mention the pieces' beauty. It's beyond him why Westerners would waste so much money on them. But the thrill of the treasure hunt hasn't diminished: "The excitement gives our lives some meaning...
...House a part of the community, with the streets that are a part of the family,” said Palfrey, whose birth name is in fact John Palfrey VI, noting that Hammond (the street to which the house was moved) was his great-great grandmother’s maiden name...
...Despite the launch's national significance, China has so far released only a modicum of information about the manned maiden voyage. Unlike the seven U.S. astronauts on the pioneering Mercury mission, who became heroes before they even lofted skyward, the identity of only two of China's 14 taikongyuan, or "space pilots," has been released. All that ordinary Chinese know about them is they're each about 1.7 m tall, weigh 65 kg and served as jet-fighter test pilots who "are No. 1 in physical status and psychological quality," according to statements by senior space official Zhang Houying...