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...flying to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from Newark, N.J., next month, and you've nailed a $191 plus tax round-trip flight on Continental. Sweet. If you're traveling solo and light, a carry-on will do the trick. But if you're not, once you check in a bag, you are adding 13% to the ticket cost; 31% if you add a second bag. If you can't use a carry-on, you essentially become the victim of a bait and switch tactic, since the airlines never name their baggage fees in the fare quotes you get on Travelocity, Expedia...
...Plus, when you find out about a cause by getting a text message from a friend, you're more likely to trust it and feel a sense of community by giving. Mary South, an editor in Brooklyn, N.Y., says she decided to donate $10 by text to the Red Cross on Wednesday afternoon after she read a friend's post about it on Facebook. "I thought, If everyone else is doing it, then I can too," says South, who says she gives to other nonprofits online but had never donated via text message. "When you see that kind of devastation...
...What automakers have found in India is a country just entering the age of motorization, where still only 1% of the 1 billion-plus population owns a car. Although India trails the world's largest emerging car market - China - its sheer size gives it untapped potential that carmakers can't ignore. A decade ago, Mercedes-Benz was the only luxury-car brand in India. In 2006, BMW opened up shop, and it was soon joined by Audi. Though high-end business still only constitutes 0.5% of the overall Indian car market, the brands are already selling more cars than...
...Taken. Later this month we'll be treated to the spectacles of Jackie Chan as a babysitter in The Spy Next Door and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a brutal hockey player who's forced to become The Tooth Fairy. But in February there's the new Martin Scorsese, plus a fine French thriller A Prophet and the sequel to the parkour classic District 13. So there's reason for optimism at the movie houses, long before the next Leap Year...
...that precision, plus the fact that Kepler is staring, unblinking and unceasingly, at 150,000 mostly sunlike stars in the Milky Way, that makes astronomers confident that Earths are in Kepler's future. As for any signs of life on those Earths, their detection will undoubtedly have to wait for future telescopes that can image the planets directly, probing their atmospheres for gases that hint at biological activity. (See the top 50 space moments since Sputnik...