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...time when the recessionary economy was hurting the airlines anyway, the oil jolt has hit the industry particularly hard. For Continental, the doubling of fuel prices increased monthly expenses by $80 million. To pass along some of their higher costs, several carriers boosted airfares last week for the third time since August. Still, the higher fuel prices seem certain to intensify airline industry consolidation as weaker companies falter. Continental, which filed for bankruptcy in 1982, narrowly avoided a second reorganization last week when its management decided instead to consider selling planes and other assets. Pan Am meanwhile agreed to sell...
...true this time? After all the up-and-down reviews that coffee has received from medical researchers over the years, is it now possible to savor the dark brew without pangs of guilt? Can it really be that an energizing jolt of java, so good for the soul, is not bad for the body either...
Today, critics cite those side-effects as proofthat Sachs's economic jolt is no answer to EasternEurope's economic woes. In a front-page articlepublished in The Nation this summer, JonWiener, a history scholar at the University ofCalifornia, takes aim at Sachs's economic plan...
...area around the New Madrid fault is one of several known earthquake zones east of the Rockies. In 1755 Boston experienced a severe jolt, as did Charleston in 1886. Sooner or later a major quake is going to hit these areas again. And unlike the Western U.S., where hot rock close to the surface provides a squishy, shock-absorbing cushion, the middle of the continental plate is cold, hard and thick. Like their precursors in the past century, the next large quakes to strike in the Midwest or East are likely to resonate far and wide, like giant hammers hitting...
...could only reconcile the mental with the physical, then throw in the emotional! These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be bad at all; in fact, you'd get to enjoy it, probably. Then away you'd go, and youth wouldn't be wasted on the young anymore. You'd be 25, with a 95-year-old mind. Granddad would...