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...time performance in March was 63.6% according to the Department of Transportation. That's second worst in the industry, and it flat out stinks. (US Airways is first, but you probably guessed.) The on-time rate improved marginally to 64.8% in April. More disconcertingly, while JetBlue increased traffic 11.6% in April, its capacity, the number of seats available, increased 12.8%. This is not progress...
...Indonesian capital of Jakarta, traffic moves as slowly as blood through a corpse. Streams of motorcycles part for SUVs and diesel-spewing buses, and everyone gets nowhere fast. The air is clogged from the vehicle exhaust and from the frequent forest fires that break out around Indonesia. Once home to some of the most extensive rainforests in the world, Indonesia is now losing trees at a faster rate than any other nation in the world, to flames but also to rampant logging. Since equatorial trees soak up carbon dioxide when they're alive and release the gas when they...
What’s even more worrisome is that when transatlantic air-travel is deregulated under the “Open Skies” treaty, which comes into effect in less than a year, traffic across the pond could increase by as much as 55 percent, according to estimates published in USA Today. The treaty will enable airlines to apply the ultra-cheap model to much longer, more heavily polluting flights...
...where sinister forces pursuing sinister ends are constantly calculating against him. Palahniuk’s exploration of death in the novel is almost giddy. He fills “Rant” with epidemiology, historical accounts of widespread disease, and grisly segments of “DRVR Radio Graphic Traffic Reports.” His characterization is as unfocused as his narrative, the characters become broadly defined, often horrific and vulgar, and capable of nearly anything in and outside the bounds of normal reality. Although far from an easy read, “Rant” is a suprisingly enjoyable...
...capital is a surprisingly effective and fast-acting way to reduce air pollution. The study, conducted by a professor and two post-doctoral fellows at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, used satellite data to examine the effects of a three-day limit on vehicle traffic in Beijing during the November 2006 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. By removing about 800,000 of Beijing’s nearly three million vehicles from the road during the conference—and pushing people to make greater use of busses and subways—officials...