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Is This Happening In The 21st Century?
Paris has experienced a decrease in tourism. Because of the economy and the city's reputation for being unfriendly, visitors to Paris are down 17% since January 2009 compared with the same period in 2008. In May TripAdvisor's questionnaire found Paris to be the most over-rated city in Europe, citing its high prices and unpleasant residents. As a result, the Paris tourist board asked residents to smile. It also set up stands of "smile ambassadors" at the city's most popular spots and hundreds of roller-skaters formed a giant smile in the Place Vendome. Maybe someone should just tell the Parisians to turn their frowns upside down.
Chicago's 110-story skyscraper was known as Sears Tower since opening in 1973. Although Sears Roebuck and Co. - the original tenant - moved out in 1992, the real estate investment group that bought America's tallest building kept the name. In 2009 a London-based insurance brokerage obtained the naming rights as part of an agreement to lease 140,000 square feet. The owners of the now Willis Tower plan a $350 million greening effort; a 50-story, luxury hotel; and glass flooring on the 103rd floor Skydeck for a 1,353-foot look straight down. The Sears name was changed, but were they "sears" to change it?
Delta Airlines hired fashion designer Richard Tyler to design a new uniform collection for female flight attendants. Then the union representing flight attendants who worked for Northwest Airlines before it was bought by Delta filed a grievance. It wants the signature, sexy, red, uniform dress made available to size 28. Although Delta's new collection offers a variety of outfits in other colors and styles up to that size, the red dress is available only to size 18. Either this issue is fairly addressed or Delta flight attendants over size 18 will be seeing red.
Women won't be ski jumping in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Although a British Columbia Supreme Court justice ruled that not having a ski jumping competition for women was discriminatory, there's nothing Canadian courts can do. The decision was made by the International Olympic Committee. According to the IOC, too few women and countries compete at an elite level to justify their competing in the Olympics. Nevertheless, Lindsay Van of Park City, Utah has jumped farther than any man on the K95 hill in Vancouver so perhaps the idea of letting women ski jump in the 2010 Olympics should be jump-started.
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