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• Thunderous storm-chasing vacations
While increasingly sophisticated technology such as mobile broadband internet and satellite radio has heightened tour guides’ ability to find the best storms, not all groups get to see a tornado. Roughly speaking, you have a 50 to 70 percent chance ...
• Comics keep on poking political fun
Barack Obama has purchased his own satellite TV station to run campaign commercials. Isn't that amazing? His own satellite station to run campaign commercials. Meanwhile, John McCain's VCR is still blinking 12 o'clock." — David Letterman, CBS ...
• Study: Georgia villages 'torched' after invasion
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of houses in ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia were torched in August, after Russian troops took control of the area, according to an analysis of satellite images released on Thursday. The analysis, conducted by the ...
• GPS could save airlines billions in fuel costs
CHICAGO - A World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages ...
• CONTINUED : High cost of upgrading
But most carriers — which are otherwise enthusiastic about NextGen — are reluctant to retrofit planes years, maybe decades, before the satellite network is fully operational. "It's like you buying a new car and the dealer saying, 'How would you ...