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McArtor plans to keep Legend aloft by following an adroit business strategy. The carrier uses nonunion labor and flies just one type of jetliner over a few choice routes. That way it can generate 27[cents] of revenue for every seat-mile it flies, compared with about 14[cents] for cost-laden major airlines--an advantage that should allow Legend to break even on flights that are little more than half full...
...Guen, 53, who attempted to row across the South Pacific to bring attention to the threat of ocean pollution, abandoned ship and had to be flown home, without eight of his toes, only one-third of his 5,600-mile journey after about...
...seems ironic that nuclear energy is widely regarded as a greater environmental threat than dams, even though fission--with the jarring exceptions of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island--has caused relatively little harm. There may be huge calamities in its future, and its fiercely toxic fission products still have no demonstrably safe burial place. But dams, for all their material blessings, are responsible for some of the worst environmental tragedies in history...
...North Pacific Ocean, farther from just about everything than just about anywhere, lies Midway Atoll. I've come with Canadian writer Nancy Baron to the world's largest Laysan albatross colony--400,000 exquisite masters of the air--a feathered nation convened to breed, cramming an isle a mile...
George W. Bush is flying at 30,000 ft. and talking a mile a minute. Fresh from delivering a speech about health care for the uninsured, the Republican presidential candidate is moving briskly from topic to topic, from the wretchedness of entrenched poverty to the nation's lost faith in the individual to the '60s paternalism that he thinks caused it all--the attitude, he says, that "we can't trust poor parents to make a decision for their children." His hands reach out as he speaks. His eyes are animated, especially when the subject is education or the need...