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...this age of soaring oil prices, hedging has become a crucial part of business for the most successful airlines--the smaller, upstart carriers that aren't burdened by the legacy costs of the old majors. Since energy is usually an airline's second highest cost (after labor), any tweaks in fuel costs or use can turn into big savings. All the major airlines have hedged fuel prices since the 1980s, but as the major carriers have run into financial difficulties in recent years, they have no longer had the cash--or the creditworthiness--to play the oil-futures market. Last...
...TANS ARE HEALTHY A sun-kissed glow may bring a hidden benefit, according to a new study in Cancer Research: a lower risk of prostate cancer. The study of 905 Caucasian Californians found that as men's skin got darker, their prostate-cancer risk got smaller. Men with the highest levels of sun exposure had half the risk of men with the lowest levels. Warning: too much sun increases the risk of skin cancer...
...race for 2008 is well underway and Republicans, lacking a sitting vice-president who wants to run or an obvious heir apparent, have what might be their most interesting contest in decades. The two candidates with the highest name recognition and popularity right now, Arizona Senator John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani, will have difficulty winning the Republican primaries because of their moderate views on many social issues. That's created a huge opening for a candidate who social conservatives will embrace. "That's the most visible and active constituency in the party," says Jack Pitney...
Summers’ remarks were especially relevant to Skocpol given her experience as a working mother. In his now-infamous remarks, Summers said that “the relatively few women who are in the highest ranking places are disproportionately either unmarried or without children,” in trying to explain why there are fewer tenured women...
...fall of 2004, 86 professors, including 73 of the 86 female senior Faculty members, released a statement urging administrators to make reversing the decline of FAS tenure offers to women their “highest priority...