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...owners, who number some 500,000 worldwide, tend to even greater eulogies when it comes to their "stove-oven-cooktop-heater," as Mamet styled it. "The Aga is part of the family. It's the heart of my home," says Joy Hanauer of Chiddingfold, a village 70 km southwest of London. "It's a way of life...
...drying riding gear. But the stove has also become a fashion accessory. "I've sold second-hand Agas to people whose excuse in buying one is that it will be a back-up in case of a power cut," says Tom Harland, an architectural salvage dealer in Devon, in southwest England...
...from the looks of it, Wolf has merely sped up his own death prediction by a few years: US Airways now wants to compete in the most viciously competitive part of the air travel market - the low-cost segment now patrolled by the likes of Southwest and JetBlue. US Airways has long carried the highest costs in the industry; Southwest and JetBlue are the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency sharks in the water...
...Perhaps US Airways? prospects wouldn?t look quite so dire if the ailing airline hadn?t tried this before. In fact, part of the new Plan B is cutting back on operations by Metrojet - the mini-airline it started a few years back as a copycat to Southwest. To save money, Metrojet flies only Boeing 737 planes just like Southwest, and often flies to secondary airports, just like Southwest. US Airways even made a smart leadership move - in a surprising break with tradition - and negotiated special arrangements with the unions in order to lower costs at Metrojet, so it could...
...Marasco is a character straight out of an early David Mamet play: a smooth-talking real estate kingpin whose boyish enthusiasm is at war with his gray-flecked hair. For more than two decades, Marasco, 46, has erected shopping centers and sports arenas throughout the Southwest. He never had global ambitions. But then he had a crazy dream: a huge open-air shopping and entertainment complex located in the San Diego suburb of San Ysidro--but connected to Tijuana, Mexico, by its very own 525-ft. pedestrian bridge. Marasco says he wants "to make the whole border-crossing experience full...