standby

Should you pay an additional fee to board a flight early, even when you hold an assigned seat? American Airlines is betting that enough passengers are fed up with jockeying for increasingly scanty space in the overhead bins to pony up to $38 round trip for the privilege of getting on early. The...

You'll see it all over your house: that little red light on your television, your DVD player, your kitchen stereo, your coffee maker. Every electronic gadget and doodad that has a remote control has the magical standby mode: so off is never off (and with many game consoles, off is a state seldom...