If you think you’ve heard every reason to get a wi-fi-equipped laptop, here’s a new one: live broadband Internet access on airplanes. This April, Lufthansa will begin to offer the wireless broadband service Connexion by Boeing on certain transatlantic flights. Other airlines are quickly moving to provide similar features. Both Scandinavian Airlines System and Japan Airlines will have in-flight broadband by the end of the year.
With Connexion, the whole plane becomes a wi-fi “hot spot,” linking users to the Internet via a network of satellites — without getting in the way of the airplane’s communications and navigation equipment. Users should be able to surf the Web, download attachments and upload pictures at speeds comparable to cable-broadband service. The cost will range from a flat $30, for journeys around the globe, down to $10 for flights across continents. From the Feb. 16, 2004 issue of TIME magazine
Why Arts Coverage Should be More Like Sports
On any given week, arguably more people attend arts events than professional sports. Movies, theatre, dance recitals, and concerts collectively draw large numbers.
Then why is the daily sports section of our local newspapers twelve to eighteen pages on a regular basis while the daily arts sections are small, four to six page sections full of wire copy — if you can find them at all?
Chris Lavin, senior editor for special sections at the San Diego Union-Tribune, attempts to answer the question. Read the text of his speech to the national convention of the Association of Performing Arts Service Organization.
Agatston isn’t a diet doctor; he’s a doctor who prevents diseases
The South Beach Diet: A doctor based at Miami Beach’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center, noted cardiologist Arthur Agatston’s hard cover South Beach Diet book has sat atop the New York Times’ non-fiction bestseller list for a year.
Not your run-of-the-mill low-carb diet, Dr. Agatson contends that by following his nutritional plan you will dramatically reduce your potential for coronary heart disease and diabetes, and will feel much, much healthier.
The diet on which Bill Clinton lost 38 pounds in the first three months — and having experienced some personal success with Agatson’s nutritional plan (while stuffing myself with cheese, nuts, veggies, meat, poultry and fish) — the South Beach Diet is something you may want to check out.
The best part: you lose that dangerous and disturbing belly fat first!
In America
A Capra-esque tale of whimsy leavened with wrenching drama and heartfelt sentiment, Irish born director Jim Sheridan’s In America, a multiple Academy Award nominee, is sure to move any audience to tears by movie’s end.
A 2003 critics’ favourite, this semi-autobiographical immigrant story of lives lived on the knife edge of hope, poverty and despair tracks the arrival of the director’s family into America in the early 1980s, in a story that would pierce the defenses of all but the most dogmatically cynical viewers.
Another must-see film to catch prior to Oscar night, February 29th.