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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the Transportation Department, released a tally that lists BWI as the nation’s 16th-cheapest airport.


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Dulles among most costly airports for fliers BWI is one of nation’s


least expensive, and is drawing business


by Derek Kravitz A new government tally of


average airfares at the nation’s largest airports shows that Dul- les International Airport is one of


the most expensive for passen- gers, while Baltimore-Washing- ton International Marshall Air- port ranks among the cheapest. The fares seemed to be luring


travelers increasingly to BWI and its low-cost carriers, as the air- port on Monday announced that June was the second-busiest month in its history.


Only six of the 100 busiest air-


ports had steeper average fares than Dulles, where the average


fare was $413, while BWI ranked 16th-cheapest, with an average fare of $277. Huntsville, Ala., topped the most-expensive list, with an average fare of about $500, followed by airports in Charleston, S.C.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Memphis. Atlantic City is the nation’s cheapest airport, with the aver- age ticket costing about $188, fol- lowed by Long Beach, Calif.; Bur- bank, Calif.; and Orlando. The


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rankings, released last week by the Transportation Department’s Bureau of Transportation Statis- tics, looked at data for the first quarter of 2010. The nearly 2.1 million com- mercial passengers flying through BWI’s terminals in June represented a 9 percent increase over the same period last year and marked the airport’s second- busiest month; August 2001 maintains the top spot. South- west Airlines accounts for more than half of the airport’s market share, and the airline saw a near- ly 15 percent increase in flights in and out of BWI from the previ- ous year. BWI’s other low-fare carriers,


AirTran and JetBlue, have also recorded year-to-year increases, fueled in part by families and lei- sure travelers taking advantage of summertime deals, said Rick Seaney, chief executive of the air- line price Web site FareCom- pare.com. “There’s no doubt that the . . . low-cost airlines at BWI are bringing in families who are


“Low-cost airlines at BWI are bringing in


families.” Rick Seaney, chief executive of FareCompare.com


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willing to drive to get the sav- ings,” Seaney said. Debby McElroy, executive vice president of the Airports Council International-North America, also noted that business travelers are more price-conscious in down economies. Nationwide, flights were 5 per- cent cheaper than they were at the beginning of 2001, though slightly higher than a year ago. And while rates at Dulles re- mained high, they’ve fallen 20 percent since that year. About 17.5 million commercial passengers flew in and out of Na- tional in May, a 1 percent de- crease from a year before. The figure at Dulles remained steady at about 23 million.


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Study: Cancer uses fructose to multiply


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washington — Pancreatic tu- mor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said Monday in a study that chal- lenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found. They said their finding, pub- lished in the journal Cancer Re- search, might help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types. “These findings show that can- cer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase prolifera- tion,” Anthony Heaney of UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center and col- leagues wrote. “They have major significance for cancer patients given dietary refined fructose consumption, and indicate that efforts to re- duce refined fructose intake or inhibit fructose-mediated actions may disrupt cancer growth." Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high-fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods. Politicians, regulators, health


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experts and the fructose industry have debated whether high-fruc- tose corn syrup and other ingre- dients have been helping make Americans fatter and less healthy. Too much sugar of any kind not only adds pounds, but is also a key culprit in diabetes, heart dis- ease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association. Several states, including New


York and California, have weighed a tax on sweetened soft drinks, but the American Bever- age Association has successfully opposed efforts to tax soda. The industry has also argued


that sugar is sugar. Heaney said his team found


otherwise. They grew pancreatic cancer cells in lab dishes and fed them both glucose and fructose. Tumor cells thrive on sugar but


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they used the fructose to prolifer- ate. “Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite dif- ferent,” Heaney’s team wrote.


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