Planes already use metallic foam in non-load-bearing parts, to reduce weight.

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For now, non-iOS users must load their tickets though a mobile site in order to save a tree or two.

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Or figure out ways to chunk the loading of different components of the page to make sure critical components load before non-critical components.

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It wouldn't be much better for Vivendi executives who have been candid about their disinterest in NBC Universal, an asset they've publicly dubbed "non-core"--and, perhaps more poignantly, their desire to off-load it to get "more headroom, " as Vivendi Chief Financial Office Philippe Capron put it at a conference in Spain last week.

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For all his lofty talk of non-material values, Mr Bondevik's first plan is to spend a load more on welfare.

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And Dianna Hanson quickly became part of the "family, " lightening the load and brightening the mood wherever she went, recalled the non-profit's president, Wendy Debbas.

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