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...international travel, they would not likely be able to stave off the virus for good - and the economic losses resulting from the travel ban may far outweigh any benefits. One 2007 study by the Brookings Institution estimated, for example, that a 95% reduction in U.S. air travel would cost the economy $100 billion a year...
...power shift taking place globally. Once untouchable telcos and their suppliers, including Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, have become mastodons stuck in a tar pit. They are surrounded by a host of new technologies and hungry cable companies, wireless operators and handset providers with low-cost solutions and must-have apps. These competitors and their supply chains are smarter, faster, more aggressive. And they're gobbling up business in the $1.7 trillion global market for telecom services, including traditional fixed lines, at a ferocious rate...
Time-shares allow buyers to lock in the cost of future vacations, which makes them appealing to budget-minded travelers, and they're a less expensive alternative to buying a second home. Las Vegas, Hawaii and Orlando, Fla., have seen the biggest buildup in inventory and are therefore the places most susceptible to discounting...
...Logging on to the Ivy Leagues" [April 27]: Granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today--notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. The social-policy aim is the creation of educated individuals. The technology isn't important. John Leone, SAN DIEGO...
...Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt,” yesterday evening at the First Parish in Cambridge. Along with co-sponsors like the Harvard Book Store, the Lowell Institute, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cambridge Forum hosted Stiles as part of their weekly forums on “cost.” “We are looking at the idea of cost, and obviously the financial world is important in cost. Vanderbilt is one of the architects of the American economy today,” said Patricia Suhrcke, the director of the Cambridge Forum. The Cambridge Forum?...