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...Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at Virginia-based Teal Group, agrees: "Airbus has the freedom to develop new products whenever it wants, or to discount prices whenever it wants, because its shareholders won't abandon it. Boeing, a fully floated company, has no such luxury." Boeing is trying to spin the A350 as a sign of lost confidence in the A380. Sniffs Stonecipher: "The A380 is a great engineering success - but so was the Concorde. The A380 could be a market disaster." John Leahy, Airbus' American-born top salesman, dismisses that prospect, saying airlines want both options - the A380...
Modern Drunkard pays tipsy tribute to the joys of Heineken and hangovers with a brazenness likely to drive MADD mad. The 8-year-old mag has just been redesigned and expanded; next up, a spin-off book and national convention...
...smaller plane, and had it chopped up and shipped to the set in Hawaii. When this year's Alias season premiere failed to blow his socks off, he reshot the whole thing, in five days. The fans pay him back in cultlike intensity. Fans on the Internet spin extended Lost theories: that the castaways are dead and in limbo, that the polar bear et al. are manifestations of the characters' subconscious, that the show is a religious allegory...
...Winning bid for a relatively fresh grilled-cheese sandwich said to bear the image of Hello Kitty, just one of the many Virgin Mary--sandwich spin-offs now available on eBay...
...Think for Themselves, social critic Curtis White argues that our contemporary culture encourages Americans to consume the soundbites they’re spoon-fed rather than seek out information and evaluate it critically. White’s diagnosis would explain why voters seem increasingly willing to buy into prepackaged, spin-dried versions of the truth while tuning out inconvenient facts. In today’s polarized political milieu, many Americans would rather march in lockstep with Michael Moore or Bill O’Reilly than draw their own conclusions on each issue...