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...corn to cattle for the last several months of their lives doesn't just get them fatter faster; it also changes the quality of the beef. Corn helps produce that marbled taste many of us love, but it can result in beef that is higher in fat - helping to fuel the obesity epidemic...
...this economy, business will probably be even slower. If the deal spurs new travel, and revenue, during a time when seats would otherwise remain empty, JetBlue will make out just fine. Airlines incur some extra service costs if more people pile onto a plane: about a third of the fuel costs, says Mann, depend on the number of passengers and pieces of luggage on board. But most of the major costs are fixed: the same number of pilots and flight attendants are required whether 10 or 100 passengers are on the aircraft. On the other hand, if most...
That's good news, because the agents' responsibilities include ferreting out the thousands of weapons smuggled into Mexico each year - most, by far, from the U.S. - that fuel the country's horrific drug violence. But it's also a reminder that the U.S. needs to channel far more of its antidrug aid not at short-term, headline-grabbing hardware like Black Hawk helicopters but at longer-lasting, if less sexy, institutional reforms like Mexican customs overhaul. If the U.S. can help Mexico revamp its hopelessly venal and dysfunctional police forces in similar fashion - better vetting, training, pay and intelligence infrastructure...
When congress voted in june to play car dealer, some observers fretted that offering consumers $3,500 to $4,500 to trade in a gas guzzler for a more fuel-efficient new car wasn't going to be generous enough to attract many takers...
...interest of goosing the economy and helping automakers, the current program requires new-car purchases and doesn't mandate huge jumps in gas mileage. Happily, the first wave of buyers opted for cars more fuel-efficient than the law demands. The top three sellers in the first week were the Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic (all made in the U.S. but with lots of foreign parts). Now the turned-in vehicles (the Ford Explorer led the list) are headed for the scrapyard, but only after their engines are snuffed with a solution of liquid glass (sodium silicate...