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Expect to feel squeezed on your next flight--and not just because of the legroom. Desperate for cash, airlines are nickel-and-diming flyers every chance they get. Many carriers this month put in place tough new rules on nonrefundable tickets. Now if you wait until your day of travel to change a flight, you will have to fly standby; after Jan. 1 on some airlines, even standby will cost an extra $100. And if you miss your flight and fail to reschedule that day, you will be charged for a new ticket. There is, however, one upside. Some airlines...
...attention, profilers have long warned, to a serial killer's first strike. The first of the bullets that strafed the suburbs of Washington last week sliced through the air over a drab strip-mall parking lot in Aspen Hill, Md., and cracked a nickel-size hole in the front window of a Michaels craft store. It then arced through a leafy display of silk autumnal bouquets, zipped behind the head of a female cashier and pierced a hole through thelamp over the register of lane No. 5. Emerging on the other side, it whizzed over a Christmas-ornament display...
...Francisco show, organized by Douglas R. Nickel, the museum's photo curator, wants to convince us that Carroll could have had entirely innocent aims in his child photography. Prose takes the wiser course of treating Carroll poignantly and letting the obvious questions go on hanging in the air. Wiser because Carroll's fervent attachment to little girls seems sweaty to us now. He met them on trains, at stores, on beaches. He carried puzzles in his pocket to beguile them and wrote them letters to remind them that "we still remember each other, and feel a sort of shivery affection...
...Leaving the ivory tower for the iRobot team was a culture shock. "We had to learn about plastics," Angle sighs. "We had to learn about Far East manufacturing. We learned that if you haven't had a sit-down, drag-out, pound-on-the-table argument over a nickel, you don't understand consumer products...
...machines that run on hydrogen are equally scarce. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have been working on the first problem, automakers on the second. The Tokyo group has developed a way to "crack" hydrogen, using a mesh of thin carbon fibers studded with molecules of a nickel compound. The filter breaks down natural gas into carbon and hydrogen that is pure enough for use in fuel cells...