Word: canals
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...scientists reported that ice-free routes have emerged during summer months. Within 20 years, the passage is expected to be passable without an icebreaker escort. This northern route would cut the distance from Hamburg to Yokohama to 6,920 nautical miles, as compared with 11,430 through the Suez Canal. That could lead to more efficient shipping of all sorts of cargo between Europe and Asia--especially oil and other mineral wealth from Siberia...
...entire generation. And in that sense, the rest of Europe is starting to resemble Brussels more than it thinks. The polyglot, Continental crowd at the Brussels stagiaire party was hardly unique: on any given evening, a similar scene could unfold in the Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, or the Canal St.-Martin in Paris, or the Docas district in Lisbon, or the clubs in Vienna's Bermuda Dreieck...
...Look for a plethora of interactive services. Vivendi Universal's Canal Satellite and rival TPS already offer a way to alert football fans watching one game that a goal is about to be scored in another. Thanks to a 30-second delay, the viewer can switch to the other game, watch the goal, then click back again. Before long these fans will also - with a click of the remote - be able to find out where European stars Luis Figo or Fabien Barthez bought their soccer shoes and order some just like them. The Amsterdam office of Forrester Research predicts sales...
Much attention has been paid to improvements in miniaturization. But smaller is not necessarily better. The tinier the aid, the more difficult it is to manipulate the controls and change the batteries. In addition, smaller aids--which fit in the ear, in the canal, or completely in the canal--simply can't pack the power of larger, behind-the-ear or body-aid models...
...excitement is palpable among the crowd gathered in the Café Puerto Habana, a brick-walled restaurant atop the banks of the Canal du Midi in the southwestern city of Toulouse (voting pop. 400,000). Though weary from five months of volunteer work, this group of teachers, social workers, civil servants, artists and unemployed are meeting to continue preparations for a revolution: breaking the decades-old lock that traditional parties and career politicians have had on political life in Toulouse. "The aim of this goes far beyond seeking power, or the upcoming election," says Salah Amokrane, 37, head...