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Transporting the chickens by plane would work, but the freight bill would push the price of a three-piece dinner into the realm of surf and turf. After two hours of e-mail, phone and fax consultations, Youstin has a solution: vacuum-pack the chicken, for a small additional cost, and keep it fresh enough to survive the extra four days of shipping. From the corporate headquarters, Youstin can quickly access the company's experts and key decision makers to craft a timely fix. Explains her boss, international COO Anthony Pavese: "We are ground zero. We have centralized the information...
...whimsical approach. Typically, the Met’s sensational stage effects create a realism that puts Hollywood to shame, but Hockney understood that Die Zauberflöte is not about realism, and his vision transported the packed house from the banalities of real life into a divine fantasy realm. The stage, adorned with simple painted backdrops, was awash in pastels, and the singers wore brightly colored costumes (sky blue and gold for Sarastro and his priests, green and red for Tamino). Even the moments of melodrama weren’t allowed to take themselves seriously. The dangerous monster that nearly...
Patience may be a mainstay of diplomacy, but it's not exactly the coin of the realm in a talk-show culture. Which is why placating the U.S. public may become a crucial challenge for the Bush administration in the coming days as it moves quietly to untangle the spy-plane imbroglio and bring home the 24 U.S. servicemen and women and their aircraft. Mindful of the fact that public pressure on Beijing is more likely to prolong than resolve the crisis, Washington worked to cool the temperature of the dispute Wednesday: No more clock-is-ticking public statements...
...happening every day in airports across the country, is to throw up one's hands and exclaim, "Something must be done!" (perhaps adding in a few profanities, as is the trend). That "something," however, is not to make a law specifying what a private company must provide in the realm of good service...
...incidence of traffic-related problems and complaints has skyrocketed, the airlines and the government have tossed around ideas aimed at easing America's travel woes, including lowering ticket prices on non-peak travel. Most plans focus on the consumer, but a few have made their way into the airlines' realm as well: Mineta is also said to be considering bonuses for airlines that use runways and gates at less busy times, and likewise penalizing those that insist on landing, on, say, Friday at 6 p.m at New York's LaGuardia Airport...