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Each dish is tested in a pressure-, temperature- and humidity-controlled kitchen that simulates the conditions of a plane at 39,000 ft. (High altitude dulls taste buds, so flavors must be intensified.) Menus are revised every four months on the basis of a plane's route and its passengers...
Of course, class is not reducible to mere wealth. (Otherwise the most ostentatious of nouveau riches would be acceptable). Impeccable taste is key. Elaborate sartorial codes exist to this end. Middle class kids play dress up, donning blazers and cashmere their friends back home would surely ridicule.
Yet the subtle material and social differences—rarely acknowledged in public—that remain are at the source of our reticence. Distinctions in wealth and taste, we are told, no longer matter; we are judged by our intellect and character alone.
The shaking has only just begun. Sarkozy, 52, vows before the end of summer to reduce taxes on overtime, make interest on mortgages tax deductible, and impose minimum sentences for recidivists. He seems intent on tearing up France and rebuilding large parts of it from scratch. Sarkozy has never been...
Percentage of Saudi Arabia's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005. Saudi Arabia has expensive taste in military hardware, such as Patriot missiles, from the U.S.