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...rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71 tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner ... At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats ... Next week, wearing a crepe-paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu." Read more at timearchive.com...
...comeback, fueled by high energy prices, reminding its neighbors that it has capabilities that they do not have. There's North Korea, exploding a nuclear device after being told the U.S. would tolerate no such thing, in what has to rank as one of the most extraordinary pieces of nose thumbing the modern world has seen. In global capital markets, London?on some measures, even Hong Kong?now rivals New York as a business mecca. And perhaps above all, there is the steady shift of economic power from the Atlantic world, dominated by the U.S., to Asia, where it must...
...someone has popped onto the screen who is wearing a Cautionary Look. Wait! Isn't that the same bland necktie, the same bland jacket, the same bland face of the man who was trying surreptitiously to blow his nose into USA Today over there by the recycle receptacle just moments ago? Now he's on TV? I lurch over closer to the screen. Maybe he's warning me not to get on that plane...
...ain’t into wine and roses / Beer just makes her turn up her nose / And she can’t stand the thought of sippin’ champagne / No Cuervo Gold Margaritas / Just ain’t enough good burn in tequila / She needs something with a little more edge and a little more pain.” –Toby Keith, “Whiskey Girl?...
...there any evidence that the U.S. is in any rush to clarify its ambiguous stance on the shadowy group. Sure, Ahmadinejad is a worrying threat to the international community, and he proved this week that enriching plutonium isn't the only way he has to thumb his nose at it. But the debacle of U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere in the region may have put paid to the notion that the enemy of my enemy is my friend...