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...work on the world's largest traffic-information system, using sensor-gathered data to channel travel advice to TV, radio and motorway screens. If you still can't face the rush hour, try staying home like the 2% of Europeans who now telework daily. BIKES As 30% of Dutch commuters know, for distances of less than a few kilometers cycling is the quickest way across town. Some cities help make the ride even easier. In Trondheim, Norway, for the last 10 years, an electric-powered bike lift has towed 25,000 cyclists a year...
...grow. My core bank holding is Bank of America. I also own Wachovia [2.9%]. Second would be electric utilities, where my bias is for quality over very high yield. I hold Dominion [4.8%] and Southern Co. [4.8%]. A third core industry would be oil. My preference is Royal Dutch Petroleum [3.5%]. Other core holdings, with a little more risk, are telecom and tobacco. I own SBC [4.5%] and Verizon [4.3%]. You have an interesting tension in terms of whether they get into the long-distance business or lose their local businesses. But there is a lot of yield there that...
...drizzly Saturday in downtown Aachen, a city in western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch borders. With Germany teetering on the edge of recession, most stores in the neighborhood are half-empty. But on a street called Löhergraben, one store is packed: Aldi. With brown speckled floor tiles, garish neon lights and a limited assortment of products in half-opened cardboard boxes, it's the least-inviting place around. But it's also the cheapest, and so the line to Aldi's two cash registers stretches the entire length of the store - about 30 people in all, their...
...works record India’s history of being colonized by the British, French, Dutch, and Portuguese. They “represent colonial India for the western viewer,” said Masteller. “I wanted to display art from the colonial era but not tell the viewers what to think. Hopefully they will come away with their own ideas...
...Harvard even brought in famously zany Dutch architect and GSD professor Rem Koolhaas to come up with radical ideas for Harvard’s new Allston acreage...