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Funny, aren't Southwest and JetBlue among the better performers? They are not always the cheapest, mile for mile, but customers of these carriers find value in the whole travel experience, not just the price. People will pay money for performance. It's a lesson the legacy guys never seem...
...remote, snow-swept expanses of northern Sweden are an unlikely place to begin a story about cutting-edge genetic science. The kingdom's northernmost county, Norrbotten, is nearly free of human life; an average of just six people live in each square mile. And yet this tiny population can reveal a lot about how genes work in our everyday lives...
What is killing the octopus of Vila Nova de Gaia? That question has obsessed the Portuguese city - located just across the Douro River from Porto - since Jan. 2, when 1,100 lb. (500 kg) of dead octopus were found on a 1.8-mile (3 km) stretch of local beach. The following day, another 110 lb. (50 kg) appeared; later there was just one expired creature. "It's very strange that so many should be killed, and in such a confined area," says Nuno Oliveira, director of the Gaia Biological Park, a nature refuge on the outskirts of Vila Nova...
...While China's air pollution woes are literally more visible and receive more attention, water pollution is generally believed to be the country's more pressing environmental problem. The 3,395-mile (5,464 km) Yellow river, known as the mother river for its role in sustaining early Chinese civilization, has an iconic role in China, and a threat to it will draw attention the country's water woes in a way that few other Chinese rivers can. As hundreds of workers race to prevent its already tainted waters from absorbing a new flood of befouling chemicals, it serves...
...forced to squat in the same position throughout transit in order to keep the boat stable. Then, fearing the Yemeni coast guard, smugglers often dump their passengers overboard as the boats approach Yemeni territorial waters, forcing the refugees to swim the remaining distance to shore - sometimes well over a mile, according to UNHCR. (See pictures of Yemen's northern insurgency crisis...