In a three-week period last month, an American marine battalion, tasked with taking control of Garmser, a Talibanised district of southern Helmand, called in one air strike, to drop a 500-pound bomb.

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Music is loaded via drag-and-drop, Disc2Phone PC software, or using an "over-the-air" provider of choice.

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The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve have also sent six C-130 aircraft specially set up to drop water and fire suppressant on the fires.

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Executives attribute the drop-off to rising jet fuel prices, combined with declining air travel.

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In a worst-case scenario, air travel, tourism and restaurants would see a 20 percent drop in business, the report said.

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Yet because AIR lets SlideRocket tap into the storage of a PC, it has a drag-and-drop file system similar to Windows Office.

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But this big of a drop is surprising considering how little competition was on the air and how much pre-season momentum NBC has had lately.

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Energy consumption would drop by 80 percent since memory-based systems consume less energy and require fewer air conditioners.

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On the horizontal axis of each graph, we have total traffic-related air pollution exposure, increasing in parts per billion (a part here would be a drop in a billion drops) from left to right.

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