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...with a wing span of nearly 80 m. Claiming it can achieve 15-20% cost savings per seat, Airbus has already sold 154 of the 250 planes it says it needs to break even. But even as the A380's trial flight unleashed a wave of French and European pride - President Jacques Chirac hustled down to Airbus' Toulouse headquarters to congratulate staff - the company got a jolt when Air Canada bought 14 of Boeing's 787 Dreamliners, part of an order worth more than $5 billion. The Dreamliner seats 223-300, and Boeing promises peerless fuel efficiency. Air India ordered...
...Pope Benedict XVI already has a fight on his hands. Last week, the lower house of Spain's parliament approved the first reading of a measure to legalize same-sex marriages. The bill, sponsored by the ruling Socialist party and almost certain to become law in time for Gay Pride day in June, has infuriated Spain's Catholic leaders. Ricard María Cardinal Carles, Emeritus Archbishop of Barcelona, who supports the church's prohibition of homosexuality, says that "to obey the law over conscience takes us back to Auschwitz." Conservative mayors say they will refuse to marry gays, despite...
...apology. But goodwill may be fleeting. Although Koizumi is credited as the architect of Japan's more confrontational foreign policy, he is backed by a growing neoconservative movement in the Diet?a bloc of Young Turk legislators who are both driving and riding the country's rekindled national pride. These are not Japan's traditional patriots, far-right citizens who wear headbands exhorting fealty to the Emperor and who for years have driven their ominous black trucks blaring military marches through the streets of Tokyo. Rather, this new political force consists of young, well-educated, eloquent and media-savvy lawmakers...
Even though Warren’s character seems weak and pitiable, particularly as he shows off his collection of knickknacks with too much pride and giddily tosses a football, Barnett sees the play as his coming...
Similarly, she vacillates between pride at her savvy sex-columnist rep and the mortified confession that she’s really no more experienced than the rest of the world. In order for these contrasts to work, the narrator has to be more than somewhat self-aware. Because Chloe neither fully embraces her own shallowness nor seeks to delve into its roots, the only conclusion we can draw is that her insecurity is a petulant display—more act than reality...