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In this age of soaring oil prices, hedging has become a crucial part of business for the most successful airlines--the smaller, upstart carriers that aren't burdened by the legacy costs of the old majors. Since energy is usually an airline's second highest cost (after labor), any tweaks...
Has the nuclear industry absorbed the lessons of 9/11 and made sufficient adjustments to the way plants are guarded? The DOE, which controls the 11 sites that house nuclear weapons and the materials used to build them, has significantly improved its standards. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which oversees 103...
In the Event of an Emergency In "How To Get Out Alive," you described new research about how people react during emergency evacuations [May 16]. As a world traveler, I always try to figure out, in an unknown environment, how to save my skin in case of a crisis. Consider...
Hewlett-Packard is in transition mode--and not just because former CEO Carly Fiorina was pushed out in February, making way for Mark Hurd, hired April 1. The company is also changing from the bottom up, shifting away from old technologies like monochrome printing toward newer, more lucrative markets like...
It's been a dark time for the U.S. airline business--or at least most of it, with profits scarce and bankruptcies plentiful. But one corner of the market is booming: obscure airlines like World Airways, Atlas Air, Omni Air and Evergreen that provide private transport service to the U.S...