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...around $6.30. Keeping it buoyant: plans for a big revamp of Shell's corporate structure and continuing rumors - dismissed by both sides - that France's Total might try to acquire the company. Losing Ground Control Ah, summertime, when the livin' is easy and Europe's airlines enjoy a holiday boom - right? Not exactly. Alitalia CEO Giancarlo Cimoli last week warned that the state-owned carrier faced collapse within 20 days unless unions agree to cost cuts and layoffs. But downsizing has consequences: British Airways (BA), which has chopped 13,000 jobs since 9/11, last week grounded more than 100 flights...
...future. The high prices for gasoline do not help the consumer either. As your story reported, with the compromises the unions and companies like Siemens and DaimlerChrysler are making to keep jobs in Germany, higher wages are not in sight. So I hope for an even bigger export boom that might create new jobs, because before that happens, only the tourists can increase consumption in Germany. Jessica Neumann Berlin Exonerating Blair In your story on the conclusions of Lord Butler's report - that Tony Blair took Britain to war on a false premise but should nonetheless be absolved from blame...
...official in Poland who deals with rural development, says that, given high start-up costs, "It's a big risk, especially if you take into account that everybody is doing it, and everybody thinks this is the future." Still, back in Germany, farmer Winkelmann is enjoying the boom. His farm, called Flottwedel, offers guests a hay bed plus a sumptuous breakfast for €12 per adult and €9 for kids between 6 and 12 (j7 for 2- to 6-year-olds). You have to bring a sleeping bag, but there are two newly installed showers. That comes in handy...
...millions of other Asian motorists, the odds aren't a whole lot better. One of the dismaying side effects of the region's economic growth?and the accompanying boom in motor-vehicle purchases by the newly prosperous?has been a staggeringly high traffic-fatality rate. With just 16% of the world's cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles, Asia accounts for more than half of the roughly 1.2 million traffic fatalities that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates occur globally every year. More than 600,000 Asians are killed and another 9.4 million are severely injured in traffic accidents annually...
...because they understand the genre so well. Pop music--where the same three chords have been swapping clothes for the past 50 years--is the nexus of the avant-garde and the conventional, and on their debut, out (finally) July 27, the Scissor Sisters--Shears, Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Paddy Boom and Del Marquis--walk the line with Madonna-like confidence. Take Your Mama, their first single, is about getting Mom drunk on cheap champagne so you can come out of the closet to her while going clubbing with friends. Yet as Shears vaults his falsetto over lines like...