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...nearest continent was a once-in-a-lifetime splurge?something aspired to as the crowning extravagance in a modest career. Then in the 1980s, an era of cataclysmic change in the airline industry, overseas fares came tumbling down. As air traffic grew, hotels were built at a far quicker pace than before. Asian tourism boards launched huge, well-funded publicity campaigns, and Western travel media obliged with extensive coverage. In the 1990s, as the stock-market bubble unloosened discretionary loot for workers in virtually every economic bracket, long-haul travel took off like a rocket. According to Rob Langtry...
...admirable for hiding his true nature: short-fused, outspoken, archconservative ... When he is not busy escorting his wife, he can frequently be spied on the exclusive golf course in [the London suburb] of Dulwich ... He even launched a popular campaign against slow golfers with the argument: 'After all, the quicker you finish your round, the more time you will have for a pint...
...Computer (voted best album of the 20th century by the slightly presentist readers of England's Q magazine), Radiohead appeared to become the band--and the brand--of a certain kind of contrarian chic. If you were smart, cool and worried about the world, nothing broadcast it quicker than some casually scattered Radiohead discs. Yorke blames the forces of commerce for making him feel like a cartoon. "Ultimately you get to a point--Coldplay's a good example right now--where no matter what you do, you become lifestyle music," says Yorke. "No one wants it that...
...course, everyone loves a stimulus. In his push for a larger, quicker tax cut, Bush asked, If a $350 billion stimulus is good, why isn't a $750 billion stimulus even better? If tax cuts are good in seven years--his previous tax bill phased in cuts over a decade--then why not more now? Here is a question for him: If a stimulus is always good, and the bigger the better, why have taxes at all? Why not finance the entire government on borrowed money? Once you acknowledge that this won't work--that a stimulus...
...inhibitors won?t help the victims of the current SARS outbreak, who?ll have to make do with ribavirin and steroids. But with all 29,700 or so nucleotides of the SARS genome already available for every researcher in the world to see and analyze, useful treatments should come quicker than ever before...