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Though aerial firefighting is effective, especially in rugged areas, it's also extremely expensive. The U.S. Forest Service spent nearly $300 million battling blazes from the sky in 2007. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, it cost $368,645 to operate a single heavy-lift helicopter for one week during a recent fire (though choppers have a smaller capacity than large tanker planes, they're more maneuverable and can also ferry personnel and equipment). The cost of the retardant itself adds up as well; the Phos-Chek slurry used by Cal Fire costs about $2 per gallon...
...have an average household income of $81,000. The higher disposable-income level for fantasy geeks helps explain the industry's resiliency. Plus, fantasy can serve as a much needed social escape during tough times. If your job situation gets you down, draft day with your friends can help lift...
...last is hardly revelatory. It's like saying this flesh stuff coating your skeleton presents maintenance issues occasionally. But the movie offers insights that lift it beyond the realist version of The Devil Wears Prada. For more than two decades, it seems, Wintour, 59, has been in a codependent relationship with a flame-haired wraith named Grace Coddington, Vogue's creative director and resident genius. These two women need and needle each other. Fashion wouldn't be fashion without Wintour, easily the most powerful woman in the industry. But The September Issue suggests that Vogue, the industry's bible, couldn...
...next month's United Nations General Assembly. That resumption of direct contacts would be a major boost for Obama's stated foreign policy priority of laying the foundation of lasting peace in the Middle East. And it would also reverse the dramatically deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian relations that helped lift hard-line, mutually hostile governments to power on both sides of the divide. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...With Burma, however, inaction is probable. The international community has long groped for effective measures - be they carrots or sticks - to persuade the generals to behave better. Last month U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted that Suu Kyi's release could encourage Washington to lift its ban on new investment in Burma. That's obviously off the table for now. Post verdict, it has been replaced by growing calls for the U.N. Security Council to approve a global embargo on arms sales to the regime and investigate its atrocities allegedly committed in its long-running war against ethnic insurgents...