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LONDON. Does the trip to and from Heathrow seem, well, boring? Virgin Atlantic Airways, owned by thrill-seeking entrepreneur Richard Branson, is now offering business-class travelers a cooler kind of commute -- and a quicker one, given the usual traffic snarls on the M4 highway. Those arriving or departing at Heathrow on Virgin's New York City, Los Angeles or Tokyo flights have a choice between a free limousine ride or a seat behind the driver of a Honda motorcycle. Each Taxijet is equipped with heated leather seats and running boards, has a hands-free portable telephone and intercom...
...John Paul also peppers his paper with 184 footnotes, citing for instance the Second Vatican Council, the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (as yet unavailable in English) and Thomas Aquinas, the medieval saint who defined the concept of natural law. The grand finale is a hymn to the Virgin Mary...
...show is movement-fixated; it proposes a kind of historical shorthand, a rhetoric of innovations and "decisive breakthroughs." The curators go on at length about wanting to show those moments when the ball was first put in the cannon. Rosenthal even claims that a new American art experienced "parthenogenesis" -- virgin birth, without a father -- with Pollock's 1943 paintings...
Keith Richards' new solo-tracks leave no doubt about who was the energy behind the Rolling Stones in the late 70's and early 80's. Richards' new single "Eileen" and the four other songs that appear with it on a recent Virgin disc show him returning to the Stones' bluesy roots while letting his own unmistakable personality shine through...
...Kirkwood, Missouri, only the dugout roofs could be seen above the water covering baseball diamonds, and a nearby golf course looked like a series of small green islands lost in a sea. At the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rivers in St. Charles County, a statue of the Virgin Mary appeared to be dancing on the waves...