The world war between Boeing and Airbus will be decided, in large measure, in China. Over the next 20 years, a boom in air travel will generate demand for 3,000 new commercial jets in China, worth an estimated $289 billion. China will become the world’s second largest airplane market, losing only to America. Since Boeing and Airbus now split the market between them, with Boeing enjoying a strong lead (65 percent to 35) in China, they had reason to hope for continued dominance. Only Beijing has other plans, announcing last week that it intends to introduce its own large commercial jet by 2020.
Though still struggling to climb the technology ladder, China is coming on fast in aviation – advancing in part on skills improved as a supplier to Airbus and Boeing. It recently applied for a license to sell its ARJ-21 regional jet in the United States. And it’s no secret that China aims to build global brands in every big business, by protecting its home market when necessary. That could leave Airbus and Boeing fighting harder for a small slice of China sales.
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He’s the sexiest guy you’ve ever seen and you’ve been warned not to date him: He’ll keep you from “staying on track” in school! He’ll ruin your reputation! He’ll corrupt you! Right? Well, maybe not. So enough with the hysterical alarms. Let’s be honest – these warnings make you want to date your bad boy even more, don’t they? The fact is, a lot of bad boys really aren’t that bad – they’re only bad enough to make you question the status quo, and that’s good. So first give yourself credit for knowing who you are and what you want – you can date a guy without being brainwashed by him and chucking everything you’ve worked for in your life. You see, as long as you’re careful, dating that sexy bad boy can turn you into a better girl. Here’s why.
When did your obsession with your bad boy begin? When you caught him cutting class? When he got into a fist fight to defend his best friend? That’s the heart of what’s so appealing about bad boys: They’re so completely different from you and they do rebellious things you can never see yourself doing. And even if it’s not always good stuff, it’s enlightening to see the world from their perspective. Kristi, 16, of Potomac, Maryland, who says she grew up a “good little girl” in a “sheltered” home, was drawn to a bad boy who’d been spelled from school. But that attraction turned into appreciation… for her own life. “I’m the only child of two professionals, and Thom had no father figure and fends for himself because his mom works long hours,” she says. “Dating him has made me see how I take things for granted, like having two supportive parents. It’s because of him that I’ve become so much less judgmental.” Great life lesson, right?
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The list of reasons a person might pack on too many pounds is already plenty long: genes, hormone disorders, a couch-potato lifestyle, love of cheeseburgers. Thanks to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, you can add another culprit to the list: friends.
Obesity spreads through social networks, according to the study, so if your friends put on weight, you’re more likely to put on the pounds, too.
Your family members or spouse can also influence you; as they get heavier, you’re more likely to gain along with them. But, your friends—even if they don’t live anywhere near you—have the most sway. A close friend’s weight gain can even be downright dangerous.
“If your close friend becomes obese in a given time interval, there’s triple the risk that you will follow suit,” says Nicholas Christakis, a coauthor of the study, which was published Wednesday and a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School. “Before you know it you have an obesity epidemic, where we’re all kind of gaining weight together, like a fashion spreading through society, rising in lockstep.”
The research—which Richard Suzman, director of the National Institute on Aging’s Behavioral and Social Research Program, calls “one of the most exciting studies in medical sociology that I have seen in decades”—focuses on 12,067 participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a multidecade government health-research project. Each participant was asked to name a list of friends and family members when he or she joined the program in 1971. Then the participants and their friends and family were tracked over the years.
When one person in the study became obese, his siblings’ risks of also becoming obese jumped by 40 percent, while his spouse’s risk jumped by 37 percent. More strikingly, if that person had been named as a “friend” by another participant, the second participant’s risk of becoming obese shot up by 57 percent. If the friends were of the same gender, the risk was even higher, at 71 percent. (The study found a man’s weight gain would have no significant effect on his female friend’s weight, and vice versa, but the study did not have many male-female friendships to examine.) If the friends were particularly close—judged in the study by the fact that they both named each other on their lists of loved ones—the risk that one’s weight would follow the others’ increased by a whopping 171 percent.
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