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...AVIATION 8 Minutes added to a Northwest Airlines transatlantic flight by flying 10 m.p.h. (16 km/h) slower, saving 162 gal. (613 L) of fuel during the flight $42 million Projected savings in fuel costs that Southwest Airlines expects this year by reducing speeds, adding 1 to 3 min. to its flights...
...introduction to already congested airspace. The agency predicts that 100 new microjets will take to Europe's skies each year for the next decade, each of them flying an average of three flights a day. Very light jets cruise at the same altitudes as large commercial craft, but at slower speeds. Under legislation written before such small jets were conceived, they are not required to carry the same collision-avoidance systems as larger jets. Alex Hendriks, Eurocontrol's deputy director of air-traffic management, compares the introduction of microjets to European airspace under these circumstances to dumping hundreds of mopeds...
...said Harvard assistant coach Cory Bosworth. “You want to beat everyone in your region, and you want them to beat everyone as well.”Powering through a strong headwind at 10-12 miles per hour, every crew battled through the course slower than expected. In the varsity eight, Radcliffe surged from behind to overtake Virginia and finish behind winner Yale, who retained the Case Cup. The Bulldogs finished the race in 7:17.9, the Black and White pulled in at 7:22.6, and Virginia finished at 7:23.7. Trailing the Cavaliers by as much...
...have a pretty good idea about how we want to die: at home, at peace, quickly, with family, without pain. And at a ripe old age. But progress begets paradox: we've gotten so good at the last goal, it swallowed the others, so we live longer but die slower. Two out of three people die in hospitals or nursing homes, often alone, the process prolonged by a conspiracy of hope, fear, bureaucracy, inertia. When researchers not long ago interviewed family members of the recently deceased, half of them said their loved one did not get the support...
...innocent polyethylene bag, from Oakland to Boston, Annapolis to Portland. And, in an effort to seem green, government ministers from England to Australia have promised to wage war on plastic. Reportedly, plastic bags clog up landfills and kill fish; they guzzle oil and energy; they decay far slower than other waste and are difficult to recycle. In fact, the bans are a case of style over substance: Plastic bags are relatively harmless in environmental terms, and where they are a problem, the ultimate issue is littering...