If the customer is supposed to be " King," my experience last week on a flight makes me more sympathetic to those airline employees who occasionally advocate regicide. The situation is so bad that most of the airlines have hired consultants to experiment with different ways of filling the plane, such as by boarding window-passengers first. That might shave a few minutes off boarding, but I think there is more that can be done and I have some modest proposals to address the issue, although...

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While the best-selling products to come out of the mill during Ford's day were cattle feed and hog feed, he said its best known product was pasture balancer. Turner, who also has a hand in keeping Stampede running smoothly, had registered angus cattle in Michigan. Lusty said, from his experience, the smaller feed stores are getting out of the business, with the corporations taking over. And, unlike most feed stores its size, the 51-year-old business still has its own mill. By "automatic,"...

Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he wants markets to set policies on low carbon fuels, and called for eliminating subsidies and tariffs related to ethanol. The United States, he said, subsidizes domestic corn-based ethanol and imposes a 54-cents-per-gallon tariff to limit cheap ethanol imports from Brazil. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. He did not offer...

I can sit back and chuckle at the "& cream" cola abominations and juice blends, but the amount of water options has forced me to realize that I should stick to moonshine if I want simplicity. I'm thinking of secretly medicating everyone in the beverage industry. Every bottled fluid has 74,138,563 varieties, which I assume are a result of seriously perturbed individuals being placed in charge of their content. Screw attention deficit disorder medication, I can guzzle one of the 80,000...