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...airlines' changing dynamics mean that you are going to be seeing more propellers from your window seat. Relax, the ride is getting a lot better. A new breed of six-bladed turboprops like Bombardier's Q400--jet fast but even quieter--is leading a revival. Carriers are taking advantage of the new turbos' more efficient fuel burn, reduced cabin noise, increased capacity and comfort and greater speed compared with previous models...
Banuestra is one of the new breed of financial-service providers--which now include Wal-Mart--that aim to marry the convenience of a check casher with the relative security of a bank. By offering lower basic check-cashing fees along with debit cards and reasonably priced consumer loans, these businesses hope to pocket a chunk of the more than $10 billion in fees that check cashers, payday loaners and pawn shops collect each year. Long ignored by traditional financial institutions, the unbanked get their modest earnings shaved even thinner by the high fees they pay simply to cash their...
...Wild Sheep Chase, 1982 An amateur detective on a quest for a special breed of sheep encounters a woman with strange ears and the Sheep Man. Part of a three-book series, Sheep Chase has been translated into about 17 different languages...
When Nazira Sacasa sent me a press release for a new clothing boutique late last month, she didn't know that I would launch a full-scale web search to learn everything I could about her. But I needed a victim to test out the new breed of people-search services on the web, and a paid publicity seeker seemed like fair game. And so, after just a few minutes of clicking around, I had found Sacasa's MySpace page, her age, home address and what appears to be quite a lot of information about her family in Florida...
...they did. No sooner had the garage door flown open than there was a motley crew of pigtailed children, hipster mommies, local skate rats, and young urban professionals standing outside. With the first three-note power chord the most literal breed of garage punk radiated down the block to willing onlookers and disgruntled residents alike. The band’s amicably misfit music and lyrics did well as a rallying cry to cause...