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...plane move along the runway. Or looked out the window. Both decks of the Airbus behemoth were as quiet as if you were in a plane with the engines shut off. But the new A380 already had its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900s guzzling the 46,000 lbs. of fuel the 90-minute ride was expected to consume. The nose of the largest commercial airliner in the world turned up as if lifting its face to the sky and we were off the ground...
...hand, Sir Richard Branson has pledged millions of dollars in the fight against global warming. On the other hand, his Virgin Galactic will send passengers on a joyride, first via jet, then via spacecraft, burning up an insane amount of carbon-based fuel and adding substantially to global warming. Is one of Branson's activities supposed to cancel the other, or am I the only one who is terribly confused in this regard? Daniel Long San Francisco
...East Timor is one of the poorest countries in the world. Although the promise of offshore oil and natural gas tantalizes the nation's finance czars, there's little to fuel the economy except for one notable exception: coffee. Cultivated from plantations started by the Portuguese, East Timorese coffee is a wonderful thing: rich, nutty, smooth. Starbucks apparently thinks so, too, because it is one of the top purchasers of Timorese coffee. Yet a search of Starbucks' U.S. website, which lists the provenance of all its bean blends, comes up with no results for coffee from East Timor. There...
...month, North Korea struck a deal with the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan and Russia to shut down its Yongbyon reactor, which produces the plutonium material necessary to make nukes, in return for a variety of economic and diplomatic benefits, including an emergency delivery of 50,000 tons of fuel oil. The Bush Administration's goal is not only a North Korea without nuclear weapons, but also a wholesale thaw in the Northeast Asian security environment. As Hill put it: "Our [talks are] really an effort to address broad problems in the overall region, of which denuclearization...
...wasn't just labor. Slimmed-down European rivals like British Airways had been aggressively exploiting deregulation to fuel growth, while ferocious American cost cutters like Delta were wooing ever larger numbers of passengers with lower transatlantic fares. "We got to a point where in order to survive, we simply had to assure our clients and own business a degree of stability by breaking the cycle of strikes, disruption and losses," he says...