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...precisely calculated risk he is taking on those fares, 15% less than competitors, is the only kind Branson, 57, has ever really taken. His autobiography reads like an adventurer's litany of near misses and narrow escapes from hot-air balloon crashes, storms at sea and unruly lovers. But Branson the accountant is unmistakable. He is methodical about risk and rigorously applies that principle to the diciest of industries, airlines. That's why, for example, Virgin America does not plan to have more than 100 planes--limiting itself in the first five years to the 30 largest U.S. cities, those...
Perhaps most important, Canadians do not see the Afghan conflict as directly relevant to their own security. Al-Qaeda has never staged an attack on Canadian soil. And although 24 Canadians were among the victims of 9/11 and terrorists were planning to blow up two Air Canada flights in the British terrorism plot of 2006, Canadians worry that fighting alongside the U.S. will increase--not decrease--the risk that they will become a target...
...griping network executives make about their shrinking budgets, “Jezebel James” seemed like an astonishing waste of cash, if nothing else. Eleven episodes were originally ordered; seven were produced; only three ever saw the light of day, and Fox has no plans to air the rest. With established talent both in front of and behind the show, those episodes can’t have come cheap. Yet Fox was content to air the show only on Friday nights (its support: reruns of the execrable “’Til Death”), then stomp...
...outside the door of the gardener’s shed, her hand quivering lightly upon the latch. If she opened the door, if she dared to set even one foot across the threshold, the decision would be made, she would do it. She was suddenly aware of the fragrant air, astonishingly heavy and moist for the summer. She heard, as if from a piano, note by melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green...
Mayor Nikolauk, a retired Air Force colonel and a member of the Upper Colorado River Authority, also had some contact with the FLDS leadership, especially when they ran afoul of Texas environmental rules. They were dumping raw sewage into one of the wide "draws" - the dry stream beds that can suddenly fill in heavy rains, sending water downstream to the Colorado River, a vital source for agriculture and recreation. The FLDS hired a Dallas engineer to design a sewage plant for them, but they wouldn't allow him on the land, Nikolauk said, so an arrangement was made to haul...