• If it worked the new engines would cut fuel burn by more than 15% compared with competing turbojets and produce half the noise, allowing airlines to push more flights through urban airports.

    FORBES: The Billion-Dollar Bet On Jet Tech That's Making Flying More Efficient

  • Boeing claims the 7E7 would cut fuel burn by 20 percent over current aircraft and save airlines 10 percent on overall operating costs, citing new, fuel-sipping engines and lightweight materials that will also cut maintenance costs.

    CNN: Airlines warming to Boeing 7E7 jet

  • The company cut its burn rate by 60%, Marino says and has 165 employees, down from 225 previously.

    FORBES: RockYou Names Lisa Marino New CEO

  • This is slash and burn strictly by the numbers.

    WSJ: Knight Lite

  • Three French police officers who are already under investigation have said they were ordered to burn the restaurant by Corsica's head of police.

    BBC: News | Europe | French parliament debates Corsica scandal

  • Burn it off by pounding the cobblestoned streets of Vieux-Lille (the old town), perhaps with a sinful stop-off at macaroon-maker Patrick Hermand on rue Basse.

    BBC: The best French border towns

  • Finalists: "Rapture, Blister, Burn, " by Gina Gionfriddo, a searing comedy that examines the psyches of two women in midlife as they ruefully question the differing choices they have made, and "4000 Miles, " by Amy Herzog, a drama that shows acute understanding of human idiosyncrasy as a spiky 91-year-old locks horns with her rudderless 21-year-old grandson who shows up at her Greenwich Village apartment after a disastrous cross-country bike trip.

    WSJ: 2013 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts

  • The 400PT is a heavy monster that won't slide around the floor and it has cutting-edge electronics that measure heart rate, calorie burn and power output by the watt.

    FORBES: Commentary

  • All that gives us a sneak preview of the many, many YouTube videos likely to come from the device when it arrives -- though we'd hate to drop, burn or stab it by accident, given the cost.

    ENGADGET

  • Show-dog owners can burn six-figure fortunes by advertising in trade publications and traveling to shows across the country.

    WSJ: Everybody Loves Labradors, So Why Are They Underdogs?

  • Matthews says that an average 150-lb. woman can burn 129 calories an hour by simply standing up while talking on the phone.

    FORBES: Shed Those Final 10 Pounds By Labor Day

  • Investigators in the U.S. and Japan are probing what caused lithium-ion batteries to burn on two Dreamliners owned by Japanese airlines, triggering the grounding.

    WSJ: The Two Men Behind the 787

  • The D8.5 (similar, but constructed from composite materials expected to be available by 2035) would burn 71% less.

    ECONOMIST: The aircraft of the future

  • Meanwhile, the life of old coal-fired power stations is being extended by subsidising them to burn wood pellets.

    BBC: Biofuels: MPs to consider subsidies for power stations

  • The space truck, which docked to the rear of the platform this month, fired its thrusters for a 740-second burn, raising the ISS orbit by 4.5km.

    BBC: Freighter boosts altitude of ISS

  • The trouble is that we don't now burn this extra adrenalin boost off by running away, or wrestling the tiger, and we literally stew in our own juices.

    BBC: Stewing in your juices

  • The Open Markets Committee will have to make a horrific choice: fight inflation by tightening policy into a weakening economy, or fight recession by allowing inflation to burn out of control.

    FORBES: No Exit, Stage Left or Right

  • The government saved the equivalent of a half million gallons by using vehicles that burn natural gas and the equivalent of 36, 000 gallons thanks to its small but growing fleet of electric vehicles.

    FORBES: All new federal vehicles to run on alternative fuels after 2015

  • That means the paper is better equipped to get through difficult financial times without having to resort to the slash-and-burn tactics all too commonly deployed by newspapers owned by publicly traded media companies.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The directive limits the number of hours they can operate before shutting down, and many coal plants are choosing to burn through their remaining permitted hours by April when the UK government introduces a carbon floor price.

    CNN: Shale gas boom sparks EU coal revival

  • More than 12, 000 CNN.com users have contributed to a fund set up by the Children's Burn Foundation.

    CNN: Youssif and family arrive in U.S.: 'Am I in heaven?'

  • Today, most conservative plans are of the slash-and-burn variety, to get costs down by cutting benefits, within the context of the existing program.

    FORBES: Let's 'Clean Sheet' Our Failed Approach To Entitlements

  • "Fahrenheit 451" follows a "fireman" who is employed by a totalitarian government to burn books, which ignite at the temperature in the book's title.

    WSJ: Ray Bradbury, author of Classic 'Fahrenheit 451,' Dies at 91

  • John Kerry, had a burn rate of only about 32% by this point in 2003, according to the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonprofit organization that tracks money and politics.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The digital moving image, unblemished by scratches, hairs, burn holes or splice marks, may mesmerise techies, but purists such as Mr Spielberg believe that it robs movie-making of its artistry.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • This may be accomplished by scrubbing, but if the burn is deep enough, the unhealthy tissue must be shaved away, he said.

    CNN: Scalp burns painful, need urgent care

  • It points out that obesity is caused by consuming more calories than we burn, and that calories come from many sources, including Coca-Cola.

    FORBES: The Obesity Police Turn A Solvable Problem Into A Needless War

  • It has been almost totally explained by the enormous increase in the coal burn at the global level.

    BBC: The year in business: 2011

  • Controlling black carbon by giving poor people cleaner ways to burn various fuels could not only forestall a decade or two of global warming, it would also save hundreds of thousands of lives currently blighted by smoke and disease.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • Endorsed by the 3GPP as the official way to burn wireless rubber in the next few years, LTE is a progression of GSM's UMTS platform, making it an ironic choice for CDMA stalwart Verizon and a huge blow for the CDMA Development Group's competing UMB standard.

    ENGADGET: Verizon dumps CDMA for GSM-based LTE in 4G networks

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