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SMITH: Our in-flight entertainment system includes 10 movies on demand, which you can start and stop, 24 channels of live TV and 11 video games. There are also 1,600 songs, and you can create your own playlist. Now we're working on offering entertainment in the waiting area...
...away the world's largest oil consumer--is growing along with economic activity by 200,000 barrels a day annually while domestic crude-oil production stagnates. Britain, long an oil exporter from its North Sea reserves, will soon become a net importer. Last year world oil production increased, but demand for oil rose faster...
Eventually, yes. As long as tight supplies exert upward pressure on prices, the only way to get relief is to knock down demand for oil. Any technology that makes cars more efficient would do that, and hybrid cars are nearly 50% more fuel efficient than even the leanest conventional cars available today. The government offers tax credits for people who buy hybrids, but hybrids may not take off unless gas prices climb significantly higher. "At $3 a gallon, they start looking pretty sensible," Wyss says. Hydrogen-powered cars could make an even bigger dent in oil demand, but they...
...Meanwhile, the North's ability to wage nuclear war may be growing, thereby increasing the ransom?food and fuel to prop up Kim's ailing economy?that he's expected to demand as the price of nuclear disarmament. North Korea recently shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, raising concerns that it might be harvesting up to 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods that could be used to build as many as six atomic bombs. Equally troubling, the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, testified in Congress last week that the North may now be capable...
Turning their attention to House dining, the UC passed legislation advocating for extended dining hall hours. At last month’s CHL meeting, Student Affairs Committee (SAC) members presented the results of their phone survey of 270 students, which showed high demand for longer dining hours...