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...plane that can operate safely on short dirt airstrips. The Kodiak, with its small wingspan of 45 ft. (15 m), advanced flap technology and high power-to-weight ratio, can land and take off in less than 700 ft. (210 m) and climb at a rapid 1,700 ft. per min. (520 m per min.). The Kodiak can be retrofitted for other uses such as border patrolling, hauling emergency equipment and carrying military paratroopers. That's why the British army and the U.S. Department of the Interior are also customers...
...companies and other financial firms are doing everything they can to wean us off paper. Tracking our accounts online is better for the environment, they say, more convenient and safer too, since we won't have sensitive data sitting in our mailboxes. (The fact that firms save about $1 per statement tends not to make it into the pitch...
...course, buses can't compete with trains and planes. The sweet spots, the most traveled routes, are those under 300 miles (480 km)--e.g., Chicago to Ann Arbor, Mich. But the surprisingly green coaches far outshine other vehicles in eco-efficiency. When you combine passenger occupancy with mileage per gallon, bus travel is four times as energy-efficient as car or air travel. Which helps explain its robust growth in a down economy. At MegaBus, sales have grown 60% in the past year...
...history shows that excellent returns are available to stockholders who survive such rough patches. In fact, following the 13 10-year periods of negative returns stocks have suffered since 1871, real returns over the next 10 years have never been negative and have averaged more than 10% per year. A 10% return far exceeds the stock market's long-term average real return of 6.6% and is more than three times the real return offered by U.S. Treasury bonds. Furthermore, stocks have always done better than bonds over every 30-year period since 1871. (See the 10 big recession surprises...
...main reason that costs - and tuition - are rising at public universities is a drop in state support. According to Wellman, in 2006, state taxpayers spent $7,078 per student at public research universities. That's nearly $1,300 less than in 2002. Any spending increase has been largely for administration, maintenance and student services, not instruction. At many public universities, the deep recession has made the situation worse...