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...nearly 40 years, and it promises to be one of the world's most technologically sophisticated when it takes off for the first time in March 2008. Onboard are the most advanced avionics, propulsion and malfunction-monitoring systems available. With room for 90 passengers (up to 105 in a stretch version), "the ARJ21 will prove China is striving to become a world-class aircraft manufacturer," says Wang Yawei, vice president of the ARJ21's financier, the state-run China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC...
...ahead in the polls and seemed poised to win his own mandate - unexpectedly shied away from calling elections. Early in 1979, he lost a confidence motion and was forced to go to the polls. His opponent, Margaret Thatcher, led her party to victory and an 18-year stretch in office...
...very unusual," said Emily Schuster, 25, a New Yorker who had trained for the event since June. "And then somebody collapsed before the halfway point, before even mile 13, and I thought: 'OK, it must be hot, they must be old.' But then at mile 15, there's a stretch where you turn into the sun and run for several miles, and people started dropping like flies. Older, younger, men, women -every couple of steps you saw someone collapsing with ice on their head...
...from Chiang Mai, Proud Phu Fah doesn't attract young urbanites so much as families and others looking for a quiet puff of Thai mountain air. Yet that's not to say that the hotel lacks contemporary style. The first clue to its existence comes on a bare, green stretch of road in the Mae Rim Valley, where a small sign beckons: HIP HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. The next is a gate in an isolated grassy lay-by, where soft jazz pipes from the trees. "We wanted to try a new concept," says co-owner Siriphen Siwanarak, who left a design...
...anguished. Not me. We Mets fans are made of stranger stuff. We are not like the long-suffering Cubs or Red Sox nations-may they face each other in October, by the way! We have not had a history of squelched Septembers. We've had a couple of disappointing stretch runs, but this is our first epic belly flop. Usually we're gone by Mother's Day. In fact, this is not even close to my greatest baseball disappointment...