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...While last year was an exceptionally light season - which National Hurricane Center director Bill Proenza admitted was incorrectly forecast - the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association (NOAA) predicts an above normal season for 2007, which ends on Nov. 30: 13 to 17 named storms. Seven to 10 will become hurricanes (three to five may be category three or higher.) There's a 75% chance one of these will make landfall...
...tabloid magazine and found that Lauer had been named the early-morning host with "the best bod in a bathing suit." To his credit, Lauer asked Romney a tough question about Iraq: What happens if things don't get better by September? "I don't like to forecast from failure," the candidate replied...
...carriers find themselves in a peculiar bind. Demand is high: the number of domestic travelers is forecast to grow at least 25% a year through 2010, according to the Sydney-based Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an industry consultancy. Yet carriers such as low-cost upstarts Air Deccan, IndiGo, GoAir and SpiceJet have added so many flights--even though there's no place to land them--that profit-destroying fare wars have broken out. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a 45-min. flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher...
This was the first supercyclone to dominate the news since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecast bigger and more ferocious storms due to global warming. Was there a message in that? True, twisters are not as easily tied to climate change as hurricanes are. But any big storm can serve as a test of the nation's ability to respond to sudden shocks. Clearly, we're still far from acing that test...
...Indeed, air carriers find themselves in a peculiar bind. Demand is high: the number of domestic air travelers is forecast to grow by at least 25% a year through 2010, according to Sydney-based Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an industry consultancy. Yet due to the air-transportation system's capacity constraints, carriers are being forced to fight for new business by engaging in profit-destroying fare wars. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a special fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices...