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...nonrefundable ticket. USAirways, which just last Friday became the first airline to start charging for soft drinks, says such fees will bring in $400 million to $500 million a year. "Customers understand the cost of doing business with these fuel prices," says USAirways spokeswoman Michelle Mohr. "They don't expect a free hot dog at the ballpark...
...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...
There will be around 10,500 athletes competing in Beijing this month; fewer than 100 are internationally famous. In this era of sports as primetime entertainment, where American basketball stars or European footballers can expect gazillion-dollar ad contracts and the adulation of millions of fans, it's easy to forget that most top-flight athletes are normal folks who fly economy and have time to help a kid locate his duckie. Most toil in their designated sports in hours squeezed between, say, school or factory shifts. Weightlifting, in particular, may be one of the Olympics' most fundamental pursuits...
...shouldn't China expect to get its way? It's used to Western companies becoming morally flexible rather than risking lucrative business. The Games are worth $1 billion in advertising to NBC, and that's not counting parent company General Electric's investments in China...
...expects Rice's diplomatic surge to work in every case--or even to produce visible results before the year's end--but the last-minute moves are already changing the landscape the next President will inherit. As for Rice, friends say she expects to return to Stanford next January no matter who wins the election. It may prove bittersweet to watch as a new President gets credit for policies she and Bush have promoted, but that is the price of embracing diplomacy so late in the game. At least, says the Obama aide, she can expect the phone calls...