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...array of design and service innovations accompany its unveiling, including fully enclosed flat beds, first-class suites, and "room service" whereby passengers phone their orders through to the galley and are served the meals in their seats at a time of their choice. Those with a low boredom threshold or restless children can find diversion in a staggering 500-plus entertainment channels, while a novel lighting system that Emirates describes as "revolutionary" will gently coax passengers' body clocks into a rhythm that minimizes jet lag. And on flights this long, there'll be plenty of that to contend with...
...what she's done over the last four years that I go 'Oh, my God!'" Spears has been experiencing some oh-my-God moments of her own lately - the sort of awkward self-examination of personal sexuality that many 21-year-old girls go through as they cross the threshold into womanhood. Except in Spears' case, of course, she's crossing it while the press snaps thousands of increasingly explicit pictures. "I'm really kind of over these magazine shoots," she says. "Not that I regret anything I've done, but I'm tired of the reaction they get." That...
...better musicians can sometimes rise above this threshold of dreck, often by enlisting a more talented photographer. Photographer Anton Corbijn has been an important influence on the careers of people as diverse as David Bowie and Tricky, perfecting the superstar pose even while he pokes fun at it. Or at least that’s how I rationalize my love affair with his work. The truth is that the Corbijn’s cover of U2’s Joshua Tree album is indelibly associated with the album itself, which will forever have a place in my heart...
Figures provided by the admissions office suggest that this threshold, measured in SAT-terms, is around 1300. Although students from families making below $40,000 a year on the whole face lower acceptance rates than those from more wealth, above this 1300 threshold, the acceptance rates flip-flop...
Reliance on SAT scores to determine the minimal-requirement threshold is not a universally popular move. Copious evidence suggests that performance on standardized tests is correlated to socioeconomic status, and studies have shown that it’s not by any personal failure that people who are poorer score lower. A March 2003 Century Foundation study backed others’ findings that low-income students placed in wealthy high schools tend to outscore their low-income peers at poorer schools...