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...story tower will top the new facility, which is scheduled for completion in late 2003. Martin said the quarter-billion dollar expansion will be financed by private donations and federal grants primarily from the National Institutes of Health...
...Case in point: at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, a nine-hectare mega-resort at the western end of Waikiki Beach, a 25-story tower opening in May will house a 3,900-sq-m spa and "wellness center." One of its main attractions: a state-of-the-art Electron Beam Tomography scanner, the first of its kind to be installed in a resort setting. This $2 million machine works with high-resolution ultrasound and other space-age diagnostic tools to detect early signs of heart disease and cancer. For around $8,000 per person, anyone whose stock portfolio hasn...
...When Bill was a boy, his mother installed him in the master bedroom of the house, while she and Bill's feckless stepfather took the guest room. The $750,000-a-year Carnegie Hall Tower penthouse office suite with views of Central Park involves the same droit de junior. It's an Arkansas Nero effect. When the Emperor Nero entered his Golden House for the first time, he inspected the statue of himself, 120 feet high; he admired the enclosed lake, the pillared arcade that stretched for a mile, the dining rooms paved with porphyry, and ceilings of gold...
...While we're on the subject of imposing economic reality, let's take a whack at the untouchables, or the "general aviation" folks. G.A. uses more than half of airport-tower services and represents 20 percent of overall traffic-control activity, but it pays just 3 percent of the costs. When it starts to infringe on pressure points - as it did last summer in the crowded New York airspace - it can back up thousands of passengers. It should get out of the way, or at least pitch in more for the services...
...There. We said it. Once the throwaway line of antigovernment fanatics, this proposal isn't so far-out anymore. Repeated budget overruns and bureaucratic bungling - the FAA is spending $5 million to rebuild the tower at Miami airport because controllers couldn't see the runways clearly - has led to cries that the FAA must...