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...worth the effort? Some critics - like Greenpeace activists who breached Heathrow security Monday to protest the airport's proposed third runway - argue it makes more sense simply to fly less. Others argue there are bigger, more realistic environmental gains to be made by building more efficient airplanes. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, once it's finally shipped out to its buyers, is expected to burn 20% less fuel than similar-sized planes - and that plane will be in commercial use in just a few months. As priorities go in aviation sustainability, "Right now [biofuel] will be very low," Virgin Atlantic...
...Myung Bak, former CEO of Hyundai Engineering and Construction, one of South Korea's largest construction companies, has built everything from churches in his homeland to roads in Thailand. After being sworn in Monday as South Korea's new President, he's about to undertake another big job: shoring up the country's economy...
...bugger off," the second time adding the insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding poll numbers, the video turned the verbal swipe into a political event...
...frigid Monday afternoon, under a fading sun and a beaming visage of Kim Il Sung, the late "Great Leader" of North Korea, the music director of the New York Philharmonic orchestra today led the largest American contingent since the end of the Korean war into Pyongyang, the capital city of the world's most isolated regime. When Lorin Maazel stepped off a chartered Asiana Airlines 747 from Beijing and shook the hand of North Korea's deputy minister of culture, Song Sok Hwan, the Gershwin offensive had begun...
...It’s a good time to enjoy it,” Stone added. “Once Monday comes along we’re going get ourselves ready for the next season...