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...Aids: Learn how to text-message, do not let your kids watch TV news, and never depend on the government. And "as you drive away from a house and possessions you may never enjoy again," wrote a survivor, "remember the song about how you can't drag a U-Haul behind your hearse...
This time around, the county seems to have a better communication system in place. Action and reaction is quicker. Businesses have beefed up their outreach. U-Haul is offering free storage units for a month. Many hotels all across the county have cut their rates in half. One man called a radio station offering his apartment free of charge until the evacuees find other accommodations. A friend tells me one downtown Ethiopian restaurant offers free meals to evacuees, though not a lot of people have stopped by. And these aren't isolated incidents. The number of looting cases crossing police...
That team ethic has helped the Hong Kong-based airline please both passengers and shareholders. Cathay's profit so far this year has surged 55%, built largely on a reputation for excellent service on international long-haul flights. Cathay isn't immune, however, from high fuel costs and competitive pricing. "All airlines are under pressure to reduce their cost base," Tyler says. But rather than relying on slashing amenities, as many airlines have done, Cathay has focused on "increasing the productivity of our people," he says. That means embracing the unabashedly corny team-building exercises that have fallen...
...alone, domestic airlines could spend as much as $340 billion for 3,400 new aircraft - nearly quadrupling the current fleet of about 1,000 - by 2026. There's also booming demand for smaller, so-called regional jets like the ARJ21, aircraft with fewer than 150 seats flown on short-haul domestic routes. At least 1,600 regional jets could be purchased between now and 2025, according to Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier. "There's never been more demand than right now," says Luo Ronghuai, president of AVIC I Commercial Aircraft Co. Ltd. (ACAC), which oversees the ARJ21 program...
Each year some 2,000 cetaceans are speared or bludgeoned to death in the waters near Taiji, accounting for nearly a tenth of the national haul. Some of the meat is consumed by humans. (No, it doesn't taste like chicken. Think gamier, chewier beef.) Some is used in pet food or animal feed. But much of it ends up frozen in the national whale-meat inventory, which contains thousands of tons of excess food...