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...tatami deck) that can simultaneously lift, rotate and tilt. Thus the actors must perform many of their maneuvers while the earth is literally moving under their feet. (If they fall off, there's a 60-ft. drop out of sight and onto an airbag.) Other scenes occur in midair, with the actors on wires or clinging to poles. That lends an antigravitational buoyancy to an artistic enterprise that revels in breaking all the rules about what technology can achieve and the human body can endure...
...well as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which runs it, claim it has been a big success. Except for an arrest last month of an armed pilot who allegedly arrived at work drunk, there have been no problems like inadvertent discharges or illegal use of weapons, which often occur among new officer groups. But some pilots complain that the TSA has never embraced the idea, providing little follow-up after training and denying them basic intelligence data like the weekly suspicious-incident reports. "The government wants it both ways," says one pilot. "They want us to protect aircraft, but they...
...That means more people are passing up the lavish meals and lazing around usually associated with holidays, and are preparing instead for the nausea, headaches and grumpiness that can occur when fatty foods, caffeine and alcohol are flushed from the system. The good news is that detox programs get easier after the initial shock. "What was strange was that there was no hunger at all," says Kurt Thompson, a Seoul-based marketing-research manager, of his weight-loss vacation at the Farm?a health retreat in the Philippines' lush Batangas province. The self-confessed "300-pound man mountain" shed...
...Harvard’s Senior Director of Community Relations Mary H. Power said the 3 percent increase corresponded to “the amount of escalation that would occur in the private real estate market...
...Sachs neglected to mention that one reason more deaths occur in poorer nations is their extreme overpopulation. Moreover, governments disburse their money as they see fit. If poor nations, many of which have extensive internal political corruption, choose to pay for things other than more hospitals, better roads and coastal barriers, they have no one to blame but themselves when disaster strikes. Poor nations of the world, take heed: spend your money wisely, and hold your politicians accountable. Christopher Vera Carlsbad, California...