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Leading the boom is Field Trip Factory, a five-year-old Chicago outfit founded by former marketing consultant Susan Singer that designs educational tours for corporate clients. Bookings have nearly doubled in 2004, to 12,000. One big reason: cost. The trip to Petco cost $5.25 a child for the bus ride, says Woodside teacher Stacey Melhorn, while a zoo visit can cost $15. "When it's free, it's easier for everybody," says Melhorn. Says Dan Fuller, director of federal programs for the National School Boards Association: "In a perfect world, schools would have the funds to send kids...
...JPMorgan. "The market for IPOs is open." Next up: France Télécom hopes to raise €1.8 billion in July from the sale of a 30% stake in its Pages Jaunes directories business. Seems they've found the market's number. - By Adam Smith Expensive Scoop Chicago-based newspaper publisher Hollinger International agreed to sell the Telegraph Group - including Britain's Daily Telegraph - to the U.K.'s Barclay brothers for $1.2 billion. Hollinger's controlling shareholder, ousted chairman Conrad Black, may yet try to block the deal...
Louis Yako's cousins in Chicago are searching for a job or a graduate program for him. Yako supports his six siblings with the $700 a month he makes as a translator, but that has not changed his plans to leave. "Even my mom tells me to go," he says. Iraq's new government will have to prove the country's long nightmare has truly passed if it hopes to keep its graduates at home...
...Chicago--you know when squirrels crawl under the eaves of people's homes and get trapped in the attic and die? I had to crawl on my belly over fiber glass and dead squirrels to staple up screens so that no more squirrels could get in. You realize you're lying on top of a squirrel that's crawling with maggots. It's the kind of job where you just couldn't take enough baths...
Segway sightseeing is catching on around the world. David Mebane, 28, added a Segway tour to his repertoire of bike tours of Paris last year. It has been so successful that he now offers a similar tour of Nice and plans to expand into Chicago and New Orleans this summer. "The growth has been really quick and unbelievable," says Mebane. It's also not a bad bit of promotion for Segway, which has sold relatively few of the space-age transporters since introducing them in 2002. "Tour groups have definitely raised the awareness and familiarity people have with the Segway...