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...airfares are on average 50% lower than they were 25 years ago, allowing for inflation, according to AirlineForecasts, an industry research firm. But passengers also expect better service--even if they do have to bring their own food. JetBlue, which started flying four years ago from its New York base, was the game changer. Its spanking new Airbus jets, live satellite TV and consumer-friendly policy of never bumping a passenger have significantly raised customer expectations of low-fare carriers. Its clever marketing campaign drew passengers who in the past might have shunned off-brand airlines. Indeed, the densest concentration...
There's nothing terribly remarkable about Building 29 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston until you consider that that's where they will be storing Mars--or at least a pretty good facsimile of it. Spread out inside the sprawling structure will soon be a dead-ringer Mars base, complete with habitat modules, an extraterrestrial greenhouse and even a ground cover of volcanic dust shipped in from Hawaii--about as close as you can get to real Martian dirt without actually visiting the planet. Astronauts training for a Mars mission could spend up to 600 days in this little...
...more head scratcher for at least some people in the space community is the Bush proposal's heavy reliance on the moon as a stopping point on the way to Mars. The President calls for NASA to establish a lunar base first, learn to live and work there, and then use that extraterrestrial space center as a launch facility where Mars craft shipped up from Earth in pieces could be assembled and relaunched...
...fund managers’ usually take home a base salary of roughly $400,000, and their annual neutral bonuses are typically in the $100,000-range...
...creativity of organizers like Joan Waters, a self-proclaimed family-oholic, is what makes these events bright, lively and meaningful every time. Waters, 47, who has been organizing the Curtis-Butler reunion at a naval base in southern Maryland every other year since 1985, sees the event as a chance to deepen the family connection and support one another in the larger world, a critical goal particularly among African-American families like hers. Her family get-together can draw as many as 125 participants...