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...Need plane tickets home this spring break but still having trouble with that whole calendar thing...
...politician from Punjab when he was hand-selected as finance leader by Pakistan's president Zia ul-Haq in 1981. He later became Punjab's chief minister in 1988, where he used his influence to challenge prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who took power after ul-Haq died in a plane crash...
...army chief, Pervez Musharraf, removed Nawaz from office in a bloodless coup in 1999 after Nawaz tried to limit the power of the military. Nawaz was tried and convicted on charges of air piracy after he refused to let the plane carrying Musharraf, who had been abroad, land in Pakistan during the last hours of his presidency...
...demanded aircrafts upgrade the flammability standards of materials on board. The USAir aircraft was built before the effective date of those requirements and had not yet been modernized. All aircraft in the U.S. are now compliant. The requirements were strengthened in 1991, when the FAA required all large transport planes to carry smoke detectors in lavatories, an automatic fire extinguisher in trash receptacles and more fire extinguishers throughout the cabin. (See pictures from the Buffalo, N.Y., plane crash...
What was it that Cézanne did that was so important to the future? Many things, but chief among them is that he shattered the picture plane. By constructing each painting as a series of plainly separate, insistent strokes, he confounds the viewer's natural impulse to treat the canvas as a window onto a scene. He compels your attention instead to the fact that it's a field of marks on a flat surface. In a mature Cézanne, every brushstroke leads a double life, as part of a painterly illusion and as a thing in itself, a patch...