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...delayed, keeping more than 6,000 passengers waiting as long as 10 hours for takeoff. Such delays are often caused by conflicts with the country's military. The People's Liberation Army confines commercial aircraft to narrow corridors of airspace, and carriers must hold or cancel flights due to sudden decisions by commanders. "It's so bad that you must fly a day ahead to get anywhere on time," says Jane Cheung, a Hong Kong accountant who flies regularly to Shanghai. "I avoid Chinese airlines at all costs...
More than one commentator used the word "panic" to characterize the sell-off. Panic - as if the sudden fear might be a bit of an overreaction, a tad on the hysterical side. Should...
...even before that flip-flop, Sarkozy's sudden admiration of all things holy starkly contrasted his carefully constructed public image: the repeat divorcee, whose stint as potentially France's most eligible bachelor is endangered by what Sarkozy himself called his "serious" relationship with former top model Carla Bruni. Given that somewhat hedonistic reputation, Sarkozy's expression of newfound piousness led author and famed social commentator Bernard-Herni Lévy to muse in the weekly Le Point over "the probable stupor of Cardinals listening to the apostle of the bling-bling presidency (and) uninhibited relationship with ostentatious pleasure...
...course, in movies like this, stupidity can also be read as movie heroism. In The Day After Tomorrow, with the northern half of the U.S. population dead from a sudden attack of Global Freezing, Dennis Quaid decides he has to go on an Iditarod race from Washington, D.C., to the 42nd Street Library in New York to save his stranded son, Jake Gyllenhaal. Tom Cruise went on a similar suicide mission to reconnect with his family in Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Here in Cloverfield Rob decides he absolutely must save Beth, trapped in her midtown highrise, even though...
...molecules that cause cell damage and are thought to contribute to chronic disease and aging, are generated. The body's stress response has a bigger effect on blood pressure, raising it higher than normal. People may notice they feel crummy a few hours after eating junk food. And the sudden surge and drop in insulin - the hormone that spurs your body to store energy - also leaves them feeling hungry again soon after eating, despite having had plenty of calories...