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...It’s a great line,” St. Lawrence coach Paul Flanagan said. “You spend too much time paying attention to Corriero or [Julie] Chu and Vaillancourt’s there to bury you. She’s a world-class player and she’s out there doing her job. It’s a tremendous line...
...Emirates faces some obstacles on its way to achieving its world-class ambitions. Fifty-dollars-a-barrel oil has hit the airline hard: it has instituted a wide-scale hiring freeze and delayed starting service to San Francisco and other U.S. cities. The neighborhood is getting crowded as well: the government of Abu Dhabi--next door to Dubai--has just launched not one but two carriers: Etihad Airlines and low-fare Gulf Traveller. The emirate of Sharjah last year started Air Arabia. Doha-based Qatar Airlines, meanwhile, is improving and expanding. Then there is the reality that Dubai...
...grew stale. Yet even as Hong Kong struggles through creative and financial doldrums, Chinese-language cinema is poised to take off?as the increasingly mainland-oriented Hong Kong International Film Festival will demonstrate when it opens this week. Chinese films like Hero and House of Flying Daggers have earned world-class box office, while the gradual liberalization of the mainland market means the demand for Chinese-language movies is only going to grow. If Hong Kong's smartest producers can leverage the city's international financial networks, China experience and stable of stars, then it could defend its position...
...Emirates faces some obstacles on its way to achieving its world-class ambitions. Fifty-dollars-a-barrel oil has hit the airline hard: it has instituted a wide-scale hiring freeze and delayed starting service to San Francisco and other U.S. cities. The neighborhood is getting crowded as well: the government of Abu Dhabi?next door to Dubai?has just launched not one but two carriers: Etihad Airlines and low-fare Gulf Traveller. The emirate of Sharjah last year started Air Arabia. Doha-based Qatar Airlines, meanwhile, is improving and expanding. Then there is the reality that Dubai...
...psychologist for post-traumatic stress syndrome. Cornum, who previously led the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Bosnia, has also hired several trauma surgeons and critical-care nurses and added operating rooms to the icu. "It's a completely different place now," Putnam says. He ranks Landstuhl as "a world-class trauma center," with top-of-the-line equipment. Landstuhl's eight operating rooms are busy most days, with doctors performing 25 to 30 procedures, including neurosurgery. Physicians set bones and clean out wounds, and carry out a lot of amputations. From within the trauma wards, Landstuhl's doctors and nurses...