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...other months." But other parents find the life-style change beneficial. Says Robin Andrews, a landscape designer in Mooresville who has two children in the year-round program: "We can take the kids on vacations that are less crowded and less expensive because we don't go during peak periods...
...Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more tourists to the Red Sea riviera. The electrical grids of the region could be linked to share peak loads and save billions...
...Jupiter, which ended at 4 p.m. EDT, prompted Net bombardment on Earth. The sites providing spectacular images of the actual collisions were some of the most popular. The Internet address at the National Space Science Data Center, for example, was hit with 5,400 accesses an hour during its peak period. Now that the Jupiter light show is history, the most trafficked locations are a lot less jammed. Reach the National Space Science Data Center at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/sl9/comet_images.html.
...World Cup sportscasters snicker when they suggest a tiring player did not have "enough days off," here's why: two researchers in Israel have studied 36 male Israeli football players and have established the optimum period of sexual abstinence for peak athletic performance. Complicating life for coaches, athletes and their partners, the interlude varies with a player's position on the field. Forwards, who expend extra energy and aggression, should refrain from sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three...
...jacked-up charges have indeed helped banks rebound from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when sour real estate loans severely depressed industry earnings. Bank profits reached a record $43.4 billion last year, easily topping the previous peak of $32.1 billion in 1992, at least in part because of banks' growing reliance on service charges for income. Fees rose from just under 25% of banking income in 1984 to nearly one-third in 1992, according to the Consumer Federation of America. On top of that, lenders have enriched themselves by keeping a large spread between the cost they pay depositors...