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...through an almond orchard in early March is not unlike a stroll past a department-store perfume counter.) From afar, the boxes look as if they might provide a weary farmer a place to sit or store his tools. But get close enough under the right conditions--dry, above 55??, no more than a light breeze--and you can hear and see one of the most vital relationships in modern American agriculture: the droning dance of honey bees feasting on almond pollen...
...company focused on connecting government departments to villages. Using small kiosks outfitted with a computer hooked up to an intranet, it allowed rural dwellers to apply for a driver's license or request a copy of a birth certificate online. The company charged a small fee--25 rupees, or 55??, to apply for a driver's license, say--but the applicant saved 10 times that amount by reducing the number of visits to a government office in an often distant regional center. The system worked well at first. "But we discovered that there was a lot of pent-up demand...
...military's biggest passenger airline. The company, with just 17 planes and some 1,400 employees, gets 80% of its business from the Defense Department. Revenues have jumped to $500 million in 2004 from $264 million in 2000, and its stock price has increased from 55?? a share to nearly $8 a share. "It's part of our heritage to go where others won't," says Randy Martinez, the airline's CEO and a former Air Force pilot, who noted that his airline was the first to fly a commercial flight into Baghdad after the U.S. invasion. "All the indications...
...town of Armero (pop. about 22,500) had virtually disappeared. At week's end a huge cloud of ash, rising as high as 45,000 ft., hung dramatically over the area. The pall obscured the sun and caused the normal afternoon temperature of 77° F to drop to about 55?? F. As rescuers hunted frantically amid the soupy devastation for mud-covered survivors, it was soon clear that Nevado del Ruiz would rate as one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions in all of recorded history, roughly equivalent to the A.D. 79 explosion of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the cities...
Four Apple vice presidents resigned after the computer maker said it would report a quarterly loss of $68 million, or 55?? a share. A fifth executive may soon follow. Industry analysts also expect Apple to lay off as many as 3,000 people...