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...already know that, of course, if you're flying this month, as the six major airlines prepare to reduce flights and seats despite the heightened demand of the "holiday travel" season--a phrase that joins airline food and friendly skies in the pantheon of aviation oxymorons...
DEFINITION i-fish-in-see par-uh-doks n. Economic principle stating that as energy efficiency increases, overall energy consumption often rises rather than falls. Instead of being saved, cost reductions from improved efficiency stimulate energy demand...
...look at some sort of regularized freight service to boost the economy. Even better would be for foreign companies to see opportunity and profits in Afghanistan despite its problems. If, like me, you love pomegranates and want to help one of the most neglected places on the planet, then demand that your local shops stock the Kandahari good stuff - the fruit that's better than any drug you could ever...
...kidnappings were staged by two Harvard student groups as part of a nationwide protest against the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The act denies the right of habeas corpus—which since 1215 has granted prisoners the power to demand legal justification for their detention—to an individual dubbed an “enemy combatant...
...European governments were given a peek at the new report prior to its publication on Monday. Following its publication, they joined their U.S. counterparts in reiterating the demand that Iran comply with U.N. demands and prove its program is benign. Iran has admitted to running a clandestine program until 2003. "There are still many open questions, including its uranium enrichment program, which Iran is running despite not having any apparent civilian use for it," said a German official. "Until we have complete confidence that their purposes are 100% peaceful, we should not let them off the hook...