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...terminal, you can order from a food and beverage menu displayed on a touch screen, and have your prosciutto-and-fig panini or Tanqueray and tonic delivered directly to you. (You'll get an ETA on your delivery, so you can decide whether you have enough time before take...
...what Hooper considers his terminal's most beguiling feature. Here, he has arranged brightly colored Moroso lounge chairs in front of the plate glass windows that overlook Kennedy Airport's main runways. Hooper calls it his "big-screen TV," and invites travelers to settle in and watch the mesmerizing take-off and landing of more than 1,000 aircraft a day. Fittingly, it is a simple glass window, and not the terminal's dizzying array of high-tech accoutrements, that reconnects the traveler to the bygone glamour of flying...
Pope Benedict XVI's trip this week to the United States will include high-profile visits to the White House, United Nations and Ground Zero. But no matter what political issues or media angles may be buzzing before take-off, the Vatican tends to stress the pastoral aspect of any papal journey. The six-day itinerary is above all stacked with church services, baseball stadium masses and Catholic institutional encounters to allow the pontiff to tend to his flock, and to the priests and bishops who do the ministering when he's back in Rome...
Shannon Miller, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history, remembers other changes to the vault as well, including a larger, padded safety zone around the take-off point. "I remember it was a big thing in the gymnastics world," she says, when the International Gymnastics Federation's new rules required the springboard to be surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped mat. "You wouldn't get credit for the vault if you didn't have a safety mat," says Miller. "Before that, it was just the springboard, and if you launched crooked, then you were...
...against Yale in the outdoor season, which culminated with her tenth-place finish at the outdoor Nationals and an All-American. But Christensen’s road to 1.83m this time didn’t come easily. According to Thomas, Christensen has been plagued by soreness in her take-off foot since the Heptagonals. “We have been working on keeping things pointed, staying off that foot,” Thomas said. When the bar was raised to 1.80m Friday, it looked like Christensen was done. “The first two jumps at 1.80, they...