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Consistency--a trait rare in the airline industry--has been a hallmark of SIA's management. CEO Cheong Choong Kong, 61, who will leave the airline in June, has run the show for nearly two decades, having worked his way up from an assistant manager for reservations. After taking over in 1984, he moved aggressively to stretch the airline worldwide; he was the main proponent of Singapore's successful push to become the first Southeast Asian country to sign a bilateral open-skies agreement with the U.S, in 1997. This treaty lets the airline fly to any American city...
...into a sold out museum exhibit by showing my ID and telling the ticket agent that I was a Harvard researcher. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: That I am standing right behind them... Favorite childhood toys: Sand, dirt and my dog, Duke. Sexiest physical trait: My unusually large pupils. Favorite part about Harvard: The D-Hall’s crispy muffin-tops. Describe yourself in three words: Left of center. In 15 minutes you are: Checking the Harvard College Culinary Society Web site. In 15 years you are: Living the dream...
Anthropomorphism isn't, after all, just for laypeople. Primatologist Jane Goodall broke with convention and gave her chimps names quite deliberately. "I don't think people would have been as interested if [chimp] David Graybeard had been No. 29," she told USA Today. Sentiment is not a bad trait in a dominant species. Sometimes it can be all that keeps us in line...
...trying to document that it happens in everyone. 3. FM: In “The Stuff of Thought,” you talk about the omnipresence of metaphor in language to convey abstract thought. Do you think the fact that we must make abstract things concrete is an impressive trait of the brain or the result of a deficit?SP: I think it’s an impressive trait. I think we do it through cognitive metaphor—that is through recognizing the similarity between a novel abstract thought and a known concrete idea and transferring one known structure...
...only one talking to you...” kidding, kidding. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Yay, go Red Sox! Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Webb, clean up your side of the room Favorite childhood toy: Baseball glove Sexiest physical trait: My calves, pythons Favorite part about Harvard: Rowing team, my blocking group Describe yourself in three words: I can’t count good In 15 minutes you are: Enjoying life In 15 years you are: Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of this momentous occasion