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Airline customers are getting used to being charged extra for everything from paper tickets to onboard meals. But now the nickel-and-diming is reaching the last bastion of airline freebies: frequent-flyer flights...
...machine, while a female doctor and a pretty nurse swam behind. Kim has been reported to have three wives but maintains a reputation for womanizing. In a recent tell-all book, Russian security agent Konstantin Pulikovsky, who accompanied Kim on a 2001 train trip to Moscow, describes the sumptuous onboard feasts served Kim, the leader of a hungry nation. The train was well stocked with French wines and once with fresh rock lobsters. Kim was serenaded by four comely women dressed as conductors...
...newer antihypertension treatments--like ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers--with an older group of drugs called thiazide diuretics. Although each of these medications had been shown to lower blood pressure better than a placebo, they had never really been tested against one another. "When the newer drugs came onboard, they had some hypothetical advantages over diuretics," explains Dr. Jackson Wright, a professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who helped lead the study. "But we did not know which drug was best...
...item in the arsenals of the Middle East. They're a 1950s-vintage technology no longer in production in Russia, although North Korea and other countries have continued to manufacture and improve the system. SCUD-Bs of the type suspected of being carried on the So San carry no onboard guidance system - like giant, rocket-powered artillery shells, they are simply pointed in the direction of their target and fired at an optimal angle based on their burn rate. As the Gulf War showed, targeting difficulties made the SCUD an ineffective military weapon, although such imperfections would not diminish...
...originally decided she didn't want her real name in the movie because halfway through the film, Kaufman gives up trying to write an unorthodox screenplay and goes conventional, which means the movie's Orlean sleeps around, gets homicidal and deals drugs. But after meeting with Jonze, she was onboard. "Spike seems really earnest and sincere. He's not trying to be postironic ironic. I got this feeling that this was a very human effort and not an effort to be cool," she says. "You feel like, 'What a nice young man.'" Now the only thing she's upset about...