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...what can they expect? It's hard to say, since the fees vary from airline to airline and are changing almost weekly. TIME.com has done a survey to see who is charging for what. With the caution that things could change even before your next trip to the airport, here's a run-down of the current status of passenger fees on nine major carriers, ranked from the friendliest to the stingiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Fees: Who's the Stingiest? | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...Delta Among the major carriers, Delta has done the best job of holding the line on fees: no charge for the first checked bag ($25 to $50 for the second), free drinks and blankets, and a flight-change fee that hasn't increased from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Fees: Who's the Stingiest? | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...very unclear [how big an effect that could have]. I've seen men who have done horrendous damage to themselves over time with smoking and drinking and who still get to 100 and older - though that's very, very rare. They might have the right combination of some really special genetic variations that we call "longevity enabling genes" - which we're on the mad hunt for. Meanwhile other individuals may do everything right and only make it into their 80s. That may be because they have what we call "disease genes," some genetic variations that are relatively bad for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

...Their message was none too subtle: Congress has done nothing to address soaring gas prices, and the people's representatives shouldn't be starting their August recess until they do. One member even drove his minivan, family included, all the way from Illinois, arriving at 3 a.m., so he could get his turn to lambaste the Democrats for not allowing a vote on a bill to expand offshore drilling. To drive their point home, members waved empty gas cans, charts of fuel prices and blown-up photos of Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of High Gas | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...flat U.S. economy over the next few quarters, said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group. "Gas prices are headed lower in the coming weeks because the oil futures market finally is reflecting supply-demand shifts," Valliere said. "There is no policy initiative that could have done this, nothing from Washington. Market forces finally are dominating the speculators." And at least with the lights off, the Republican representatives who plan to spend all week talking gas prices on the shuttered House floor will be doing their part to save electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of High Gas | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

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