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...airline. "The low-fare model will not work on long flights. Passengers want good service, comfort and certainly some food." Emirates is betting instead on full service. The carrier has plenty of well-established rivals. Singapore Airlines, which flies to 94 destinations--among them the recently launched longest nonstop flight ever, from New York City to Singapore--has for years dominated customer-service rankings. Hong Kong--based Cathay Pacific is another carrier that receives rave reviews and competes around the world with Emirates...
...like Klein who fancy themselves to be intellectuals find to discount President Bush? He is obviously intelligent, thoughtful, courageous, very determined and a man of action. Bush confounds leftists because he is not a handwringer. The remarkable thing is that he can keep his equilibrium in the face of nonstop criticism from his opponents. Is it because the media are afraid that he really might be great - this straightforward, plainspoken man from Texas? Carroll Hoke Wichita, Kansas, U.S. Klein analyzed Bush's reliance on his gut reactions more than on tortured reasoning. I wonder how much that is true...
...system to fly critically ill people in the air; we had to create it on the ground," says Colonel John Holcomb, one of only two Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk Down. They performed 34 surgeries in a nonstop 36-hour stint. Haunted by the event, Holcomb and others began pushing for change. Army and Air Force commanders together argued that the military needed a joint medical strategy...
...June 2003. He headed back to Iraq earlier this month to command a 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment troop. Aside from those daily slow-drip shrapnel and bullet wounds, there are the times that Landstuhl's doctors call simply "surge modes" - stretches of up to 24 hours when they perform nonstop operations. Like military historians, they can rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers, when casualties spilled into the passages: the bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters in August 2003, two major offensives against Fallujah last spring and fall, and the devastating suicide bomb...
...Rice will be a cricket expert the next time she hits the subcontinent. Are the disagreements among Bush foreign policymakers gone? Of course not. But for now, the nonstop dissonance of the first term has subsided, replaced by something new: a single voice who speaks confidently for the boss. --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Matthew Forney/Beijing, Sayed Talat Hussain/Islamabad, Jeff Israely/Rome, Donald Macintyre/Seoul, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Alex Perry/New Delhi, Matt Rees/Jerusalem, and Paul Quinn-Judge and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow