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...poll numbers plunged to 31%, visited Florida to tout his Medicare prescription plan with the help of Jeb, whose own numbers have hovered in the mid-50s since he took office in 1999. Descending Air Force One, the President playfully straightened Jeb's necktie on the Tampa tarmac - and then spent much of the day fielding questions about whether he was grooming his younger brother to succeed him in 2008. Rather than dampen speculation, he only stoked it it by declaring that Jeb would make "a great President...
...VIENNA: With slender, frosted-glass partitions, lots of whitewash, and modish furnishings in cheery blues and reds, Austrian Airlines has created an appropriately airy ambience at its Business Lounge Plaza in Vienna. The second-story space overlooks the tarmac and features a particularly well-equipped business center, Zen-inspired dried floral arrangements and walls decorated with playfully large depictions of spring flowers and clouds...
...FRANKFURT: With a personal assistant to wait on you until it's time to take off and limousine transfer across the tarmac to your waiting aircraft, Lufthansa's first-class lounge at Frankfurt raises the bar when it comes to service on the ground. Passengers can work in fully equipped individual offices, rest in private suites, kick back in the cigar lounge, watch movies on demand or dine in the gourmet restaurant...
...VIENNA: With slender, frosted-glass partitions, lots of whitewash, and modish furnishings in cheery blues and reds, Austrian Airlines has created an appropriately airy ambience at its Business Lounge Plaza in Vienna. The second-story space overlooks the tarmac and features a particularly well-equipped business center, Zen-inspired dried floral arrangements and walls decorated with playfully large depictions of spring flowers and clouds. HONG KONG: It's been open for seven years, but The Wing - Cathay Pacific's stylishly minimalist lounge at Hong Kong International Airport - has lost none of its flair and continues to appear at, or near...
...reciting the Lord’s Prayer and the hijackers again praying as the plane sways towards the velvet Appalachians. “United 93” is a superbly shot film, with strikingly poignant sequences that heighten the spiritual feel—the airplanes lined up on the tarmac looking fuzzy in the boiling heat of their engines, the Twin Towers burning desperately through a window of the banking plane. Greengrass uses a soft focus and grainy film to create a washed-out effect, which does work to bring out the jumpy chaos as the realization of the tragedy...