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...able to get before. Dijon, previously accessible only by road or train, got its Buzz link in March; the northern French city estimates that British visitors will bring in at least 35 million this year. Officials, noting that already around 20% of British passengers are business travelers, plan to exploit that traffic by promoting the city as a location for conferences and conventions. They calculate that for British companies a three-day conference in Dijon, including air fares and hotels, would be cheaper than meeting in London. Hoping to make Dijon the gateway to the rest of Burgundy, airport director...
...tire of endless changes to the "jihadi" URLs, and also to eliminate any possibility that such sites could be used by al-Qaeda members to communicate with each other via secret signals or hidden encrypted files. A U.S. counter-terrorism official confirms that Washington has an active campaign to exploit al-Qaeda's use of the Internet, and that the CIA monitors al-Qaeda web sites and those who use them. But it's far from clear that clumsy disruption would more useful to Washington than diligent monitoring. Moreover, the jury is still out among intelligence officials over just...
Being a camp counselor puts one in a curious position, particularly with a group of middle schoolers. They very quickly identify and exploit every minor fault and weakness you have. You are under pressure 24 hours a day to be a friend and a confidante while simultaneously filling in as a surrogate parent. Each day you find yourself carefully navigating along the very delicate line between being the authority figure and being the buddy...
...technology has blossomed, it has expanded the ways to exploit intellectual property and added greater value," says Joseph Beard, a professor at St. John's University School of Law. Yet as the new rights become more valuable, such old-media distributors of content as publishers and photo agencies are discovering a new willingness by courts to leave them out in the cold...
Because technology cycles are quickening, distributors cannot count on having more than a few years to exploit their existing rights in a work. As a result, businesses must price their merchandise to make as much money as possible up front. "This is a huge problem and will continue to be a huge problem," says Lanning Bryer, a lawyer at the New York City firm Ladas & Perry, which specializes in intellectual-property cases. "The game is to keep everyone else off the golden apple for as long as possible." Or, as in the Pooh case, to keep them off the golden...