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...waging for coveted business-class passengers. Each of the aisle-only chairs comes with a customizable lumbar support--and an ottoman, just in case you need to conduct an onboard staff meeting or order up an in-flight beauty-therapy treatment. Virgin is spending about $81 million to retrofit its planes this summer through next fall in an effort to land the Concorde crowd...
Surrounded by some of the tightest security ever seen in Prague, President Bush did his best this week to pump some adrenaline into the veins of European NATO leaders. They had gathered in the Czech capital to retrofit the mission and membership of the 53-year-old alliance formed to counter the Soviet threat. And Bush wanted them to focus, above all else, on the war on terrorism - and on the confrontation with Iraq. "For terrorists and terrorist states," said Bush, "every free nation is a potential target, including the free nations of Europe...
...then again, other institutions with far less wealth but buildings nearly as expensive to retrofit with new-fangled cable technology have nonetheless swallowed the cost and installed cable. Even Lesley University has cable! Lesley University! Do they even have professors...
...little guys skipped the interim solutions favored by majors like United and American, such as rigging a horizontal bar across the cockpit door, chiefly because they could: the big carriers have hundreds of planes to retrofit, and that takes time and money. Frontier, which has both Boeing and Airbus aircraft in its 31-plane fleet, decided that the bars weren't up to the job. "[That bar] is simply a feel-good measure," says one pilot from a major carrier. Frontier's engineers were unable to find any acceptable hardened cockpit doors quickly and eventually built their own from scratch...
...homes, businesses and public buildings around the world all achieved the 30% cuts that a Destination Conservation retrofit gives schools, society would be halfway to the 50% to 70% reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions needed to avoid severe global warming. Thus the retrofits send a message to adults, says Staszenski: "If kids can do it, what's your problem...