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...meet the growing demand, more than a dozen major ride-sharing sites have sprung up, many of them quite sophisticated. Some allow users to sort by age, gender, type of car, smoking or smoke-free travel and even music preferences. At Carpoolworld.com you enter your destination, and the site spits out a list of registered users headed your way. Ridester.com one of the fastest-growing sites, with 11,000 unique users since August, will send you a text message when a potential match arises. It will also hit you with a $2 surcharge for each transaction and take...
...error occurred while processing this directive] something ominous: massive street protests threatened by Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah to bring down Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's Western-backed government. The government is already in crisis. Six pro-Syrian ministers quit last week after Siniora refused Hizballah's demand for a new government alloting the group and its allies one-third of the Cabinet posts, enough to give them effective veto power. Nasrallah wants to be able to block laws that could threaten Hizballah, such as a grant of increased powers to the expanding U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon...
There may not yet be any discerning Chinese collectors in the model of the influential Saatchi. But that's unlikely to affect the demand for modern Chinese art, since many of the newly minted millionaires simply don't have anywhere else to put their cash. "It's what I call the panic of new money," says Zhao, 45, who manages the venerable Courtyard Gallery. "The government is killing the property market, the stock market has been up and down like a bouncing ball, and people don't trust it. They can only buy so many Mercedes. They have...
Skyrocketing prices have left galleries and dealers scrambling to keep up with the demand. Sotheby's held its first sale of purely Chinese contemporary art in New York City only last March. A dozen or so foreign galleries from New York, London and Hong Kong have opened branches in Beijing and Shanghai in the past 18 months. Meanwhile, scores of local galleries have sprung...
...Sunday morning camping excursion that he and his roommates believe will be necessary to acquire the Nintendo Wii. “We probably won’t have a tent. We’re just going to sit out on a curb or something.” Indeed, demand for the new game systems is considerable. In the CambridgeSide Galleria, Best Buy had seen about 40 people queue up before its doors in anticipation of the first PS3 shipment by last evening, though its opening was scheduled for 8 a.m. today. “PlayStation appeals more to older gamers...