Word: watchful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...watch, the takeoff roll for Air France Flight 380 lasted 35 seconds. "39 seconds," corrected Laurent Bonnard, a French historian, as we chatted in a lounge area later. Either way, all the planiacs on board Air France's inaugural A380 Airbus flight from New York City to Paris agreed the takeoff was a thing of beauty. Imagine an apartment building with wings that steps into the sky with the quiet grace of a ballet dancer. The lack of engine noise - it's 50% quieter than a 747-400 on takeoff - was downright eerie. The A380...
...Watch an interview with Stephenie Meyer...
...Alma Mahler. One of history's supreme narcissists, she betrayed her first husband, composer Gustav Mahler, by having affairs with both Gropius and painter Oskar Kokoschka. After Gustav's death, it was Gropius she wed, only to leap a few years later into the arms of writer Franz Werfel. (Watch TIME's video "The Haus of Modern Design...
...money yet from that music video or any of the others he and a classmate have produced. Like many viral sensations, he is suddenly trying to navigate a maze of advertising offers, promotional deals and legal issues in the hopes of making a (typically small) fortune from Internet fame. (Watch Sam Tsui explain his YouTube success...
...countries like Libya and Zimbabwe - it has also gone about shielding some of its own leaders from charges of graft, an ominous return to past practices. More worryingly, it has done little to rein in the military, which was accused earlier this year by Human Rights Watch of participating in extrajudicial killings, torture and disappearances. (See pictures of political high tension in Zimbabwe...