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...rapidly expanding company is flying 80% full, vs. an industry average of 68.4%, and it recently booked its seventh straight month of profits, even as major carriers have struggled to stay in the black. From its base in New York City, JetBlue currently flies to 14 destinations, including Oakland, Calif.; Denver; Orlando, Fla.; Seattle; and Salt Lake City, Utah. Last month the company became the most ambitious start-up in U.S. aviation history when it ordered 48 new Airbus 320 jetliners--valued at $2.5 billion--to go with the 68 planes on the way and 15 in service. That...
...Boring--has made him the R. Crumb of Generation Y. (The Ghost World title is graffiti Clowes saw on a wall in Chicago.) Enid and Rebecca first appeared in 1993. "The characters came to me spontaneously, fully formed, when I drew them in my sketchbook," says Clowes in his Oakland, Calif., home. "They felt like two parts of my personality. Enid is the id, dissatisfied with everything, not sure where she belongs; Rebecca is more pragmatic, trying to make the best of it. That's my inner conflict...
...world's electrical power generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar is about $7 billion--up from less than $1 billion a decade ago, but still a tiny fraction of the total electricity market, according to a study by green-technology consultants Clean Edge, of Oakland, Calif. That study projects the renewable market to reach $82 billion by 2010, as technological advances lower the price and make renewables easier to use. And governments around the world are pushing power producers to reduce emissions that contribute to air pollution and global warming. Joel Makower, co-founder of Clean Edge...
...fold, as virtually every other start-up airline with aspirations of major success has done since the U.S. airline industry was deregulated in 1978. After a few months, when JetBlue was still lurking about (and expanding its routes: it now flies to 14 cities from JFK, including Orlando, Seattle, Oakland, Salt Lake City and upstate New York), the rivals just matched JetBlue's fares and waited until the competitive pressure drove JetBlue to close up shop...
...enough to keep the airline growing and adding planes and flights. At low, low prices - tickets from JFK to its newest city, New Orleans, start at $69 one way, and even last-minute fares (where the big carriers usually start using commas in their prices) to Oakland...