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...which he founded in 1998. "It was a painful decision, given that the Post was my baby," he says. "But a national newspaper needs a resident proprietor and I've not been a resident of Canada for 12 years." Indeed Black, who is married to columnist Barbara Amiel, a Briton who grew up in Canada (he has three children from a previous marriage), spends half the year at his home in London. He has close ties to the British Conservative Party and, like his friend Margaret Thatcher, opposes increased British integration into the E.U. Born to a wealthy family, Black...
...case of DVT, many airlines will be forced to do just that in the next few weeks, as the summer holiday season takes off. The death last October of Briton Emma Christofferson, 28, after flying home on Qantas from Australia triggered an avalanche of claims. Melbourne law firm Slater & Gordon has collected 2,300, of which 120 involved deaths. It hopes to file test cases later this month in what all sides see as a legal watershed for the aviation industry. "The cases involve just about every airline flying to and from Australia," says Paul Henderson, heading Slater & Gordon...
...legroom, the lack of air." But airlines' attempts to share blame with passengers may hold some water. Ishii says she knows she should have walked around, but stayed in her seat so as not to disturb her husband and his neighbor. And some passengers' behavior may expose us all. Briton Judith Wilson says she recently boarded a flight to South Africa, armed with eucalyptus drops and decongestant tablets to counter a chest infection she developed days before. Fearful of jeopardizing her cheap, advance-purchase fare, she didn't consult her doctor?or tell the airline. "I'm a danger...
Chittagong is a good base for traveling into the precipitous jungle hills bordering Burma to visit indigenous tribes (see Detour). But check on security: it was here insurgents took two Danes and a Briton hostage in February. (Soldiers freed them a month later.) You can also take a 20-minute motorcycle-taxi ride north to Sitakunda, one of the great graveyards of the sea. At first glance, it seems like just another coastal town on the way to somewhere else. But behind the row of one- and two-story homes is a stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores...
...still does both, and its audience appreciates it. Every Briton watches or listens to the BBC an average of more than 40 hours a week. The quality of costume dramas like Pride and Prejudice or science series like the recent Walking with Dinosaurs has made BBC programming an export item worth more than $200 million a year. The corporation has even succeeded in new media--BBC Online is Europe's most-visited information Internet site...