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...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Business travel to China is surging these days, but if you want to cushion yourself from the inevitable queues at arrivals and baggage claim, then China Fast Track may be the solution. Established to provide seamless VIP treatment from arrival to departure, the service offers travelers express customs and immigration passage and baggage handling. If your flight isn't parked at the gate, a car will be sent to collect you to take you to the airport building. Other services include arranging for you to pick...
...articulated model of an adult male used to measure car safety; in Los Angeles. After developing dummies to test parachutes and jet ejection seats, he refined his work to suit the needs of the increasingly safety-conscious auto industry, introducing the first dummy specifically for cars, called the "VIP...
...police are still dying to find out how he got a ticket to the “blue” VIP section on the West Lawn during the recent Presidential Inauguration. But Harvard Divinity School student Jeremiah Jenkins refused to reveal his secret, even to FM. This editor of HDS student publication “No Empire: A Journal of Conscience” has an agenda that does not include outing his sources...
...trading room at Huaxia Securities, one of mainland China's three biggest brokerage houses, is a place where Beijing residents gather to monitor the stock ticker and hunch over computer keyboards while they buy and sell shares of 1,378 listed Chinese companies. Like casinos, Huaxia supplies VIP rooms to high-stakes customers. After the central government's disclosure last week that China's surging economy registered unexpectedly rapid GDP growth of 9.5% in the fourth quarter of 2004, the VIP rooms should have been buzzing. But they were empty, while the atmosphere in the main room was morose...
...UNVEILED. The AIRBUS A380, the world's biggest passenger plane, at a VIP-packed gala in its hangar; in Toulouse, France. The result of a 10-year, $12 billion program linking construction plants in Britain, France, Germany and Spain, the A380 surpasses in size the U.S.-made Boeing 747, which has dominated the skies for 25 years. Airlines have already ordered more than 140 of the aircraft, which can carry up to 840 passengers on two decks. The first commercial flights are expected in spring...