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Propelled by the success of the Selfridges store, Future Systems may be approaching its warp-speed moment, meaning it's poised for serious takeoff. It has under way two major projects in Italy, that museum for the Maserati car company in Modena and a subway station in Naples that's a collaboration with Anish Kapoor. He's the British artist best known in the U.S. for Cloud Mirror, the reflective steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park that locals call the Bean. Obviously, beans are a developing theme here...
...Pitt only crank up the handsome and rip the knob off" - in his television show's celebrity feuds segment. Khan, Colbert said way back in early January, had failed to turn up to Bachchan's New Year's Eve party. And so the cycle of silliness continues: a comic takeoff of an Indian news story is picked up by Indian newspapers weeks after it aired and cited as international recognition of a feud that may not even exist...
...time to see the crowded car drive away, I glanced at my watch, beginning to worry.4:40…4:45…4:50…I was in trouble, but I was optimistic when I got to the airport with a good forty minutes to go before takeoff. I even saw a fellow Coloradoan, a friend of mine whose flight was supposed to leave before mine.“Good,” I thought. “If she’s still here, then I’ll be fine for my flight...
BLAZING TAILWINDS Guess what the new German airline Smintair (Smokers International Airways) will let you do? When flights begin next October, every passenger--and crew member--is welcome to light up, from takeoff to landing...
...course, the warm welcome was not for some "unknown", but for the hometown priest-made-pope. Still, with surveys showing faith on the wane on the native soil of the Holy Father, the Pope was doing his best to keep positive as he spoke with reporters just before takeoff on a jet at Rome's Ciampino airport...