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...exception, they discovered, was Pima County, which covers 9,186 sq. mi. of southern Arizona, including the city of Tucson. Pima has developed a conservation plan that permits growth while protecting the desert environment--a plan that has become a template for communities across the Southwest. "The old debate about whether growth is good or bad is irrelevant," says Chuck Huckelberry, Pima County administrator. "We have been growing for 50 years [in Tucson]. But we control where our growth occurs so it maximizes benefits and minimizes impacts...
Once a desert landscape has been despoiled, it recovers slowly, if at all. "Where you have rain, things grow back in 20 or 30 years. In the desert Southwest, it takes centuries," says Huckelberry, an engineer by training. Pima County, he is quick to point out, is not antigrowth--far from it. Every year for the past decade, the population has grown by 15,000 souls and covered 4,500 acres of desert in new housing. The newspapers are flush with property advertisements, the roads out of town dotted with signs for new developments with names like Coyote Creek...
...invasive species that was originally imported from Kenya to feed cattle. Adapted to being trampled by elephants and capable of spreading widely with little water, buffel grass has migrated west from the rangelands of Texas, bringing a new threat, fire. To conserve water, most desert species in the Southwest grow far apart, making it hard for fires to spread. Buffel grass grows easily in dry soil, forming a carpet of dry, flammable stalks that burns very hot after a lightning strike and can engulf cacti, yucca, ocotillo and the paloverde trees. "None of the native plants have fire adaptation...
...efficiencies of flying a relatively new fleet of planes, it costs Emirates only 8.5¢ to carry one passenger one mile (the cost per available seat mile, or CASM, a common industry measurement), which is better than most of its competitors' rates and rivals that of legendary cost king Southwest Airlines (which has a CASM of 6.5¢, excluding fuel). Emirates' operating margins--13% in 2004-- not only are much better than those of comparable airlines Singapore, at 7%, and Cathay Pacific, at 8%, but also outshine Southwest...
...efficiencies of flying a relatively new fleet of planes, it costs Emirates only 8.5? to carry one passenger one mile (the cost per available seat mile, or CASM, a common industry measurement), which is better than most of its competitors' rates and rivals that of legendary cost king Southwest Airlines (which has a CASM of 6.5?, excluding fuel). Emirates' operating margins?13% in 2004?not only are much better than those of comparable airlines Singapore, at 7%, and Cathay Pacific, at 8%, but also outshine Southwest...