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...grand sérail, seat of the Lebanese government, is a magnificent 19th century Oriental palace. The stone façade, geometrical courtyard and ornate chambers were originally built as an Ottoman military barracks. Though beautifully restored, the structure was gutted at the start of the 15-year civil war - a wound on Lebanese history that is never far from the mind of the Grand Sérail's occupant since 2005's Cedar Revolution: Prime Minister Fouad Siniora...
...whale-sized seaplane on 10-ft.-high waves. Seaplanes manage to combine the worst aspects of airsickness and seasickness, and I fear that a simulated flight might make me lose my actual lunch. But Lt. Sagawa has a much surer hand that I do. "Once you get in that seat, you know right away who can do it and who can't," he says, with the confidence of years of training. It's not just superior technology that makes Japan's military better in many ways to its Asian neighbors, but superior human capital - not unlike the formula Japan used...
...suffered ennui because of it. You think Café Flore in Paris would lose its charm because it served automated café au lait? Je pense que no friggin' way. Sit down in Starbucks and enjoy a cup and some conversation? Sure, if you can manage to snag a seat from the WiFi squatters who have set up an office for the price of a latte. (Here's a suggestion: Set up joint outlets with Kinkos, and get these freeloaders out of your stores. What shall we call it? Starkos? Buckos? Stinkos...
...concerned. It's such fun," says John Goodwin, a 62-year-old retired candy wholesaler from England, who talked while his fellow travelers played tennis in the rain. Goodwin had visited Rutan's workshop. "There he is, answering your questions. We've got these seats here, he says. How do YOU want them? I didn't realize when we come back from space, we're going to be hitting over 6 gs - six times our body weight. You can't be sitting upright. You'd black out. You've got to lie down and Rutan's designed a seat...
...great but aging actress. As the older performer, played unforgettably by Bette Davis, begins to realize what's up - that the ingenue's real goal is to supplant her on the stage - she issues a raspy warning that has become one of the immortal lines in film: "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night...