Word: polished
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...Some airlines are already updating their passenger information material. British Airways recently introduced a health pamphlet that travelers receive with their tickets. LOT, the Polish airline, will soon include a page of exercises in its inflight magazine. Dutch carrier KLM has launched a special website with health-related information. Airbus reports that buyers of its new A-380 aircraft have expressed an interest in putting treadmills on board, a plan that could raise other safety issues. But some airlines continue to insist that DVT is the responsibility of the customer. "The risk [of DVT] does not concern the ordinary, healthy...
...DIED. BALTHUS, 92, reclusive French-born artist, considered one of the finest realist painters of the 20th century; in Rossiniere, Switzerland. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola to a Polish family living in Paris, Balthus was best known for his provocative portrayals of adolescent girls. He was one of the few artists to exhibit his work at the Louvre while still alive...
...consolidated his power; daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) is at Columbia University, across the river; Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) is running with a bad crowd; and Carmela - long-cheated-on Carmela - is sublimating her feelings like a good suburban housewife, through tennis lessons. (We also follow the Sopranos' Polish maid, one of a growing cast of peripheral East Europeans - Polish domestics, Russian strippers, Czech mobsters - who provide a modern-day connection to the Italian Americans' immigrant past...
...known in nearly as many countries as the rubberized Hollywood star. Takeshi pages pock the Worldwide Web, in Spanish, French, English, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish. His international admirers, seeing him churn out nine films in 11 years as actor-auteur?and perhaps catching him as an actor in art films (Nagisa Oshima's Gohatto), nihilist teen epics (Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale) and a Hollywood thriller (the Keanu Reeves Johnny Mnemonic)?may not know that films are a kind of hobby for Kitano. How could he have time to do anything else? But of course he does...
...tough time trying to stay in interior China. Already, the local authorities, after sending the deputy mayor to offer condolences, are making life somewhat difficult. Foreigners visiting the Morrisons are carefully vetted, apparently to limit publicity about the murder, which can only embarrass China as it tries to polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice...