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...have to find ways to compete with one another. While the number of cash machines has quadrupled over the past decade, to some 324,000 in the U.S. alone, and while they racked up $2.3 billion in user fees last year, the number of monthly transactions per machine has fallen by half since 1996. Banks are essentially fighting for customers at every gas station and corner store. A few years ago, some started offering extra services, such as check cashing and stamp dispensing...
...survey of European charter operators by the trade publication Air Charter Guide, 35% said traffic had increased since the attacks, while 40% reported no downturns since September. "That's a strong result" in recessionary times, says spokesperson Meara McLaughlin, especially considering that business for Europe's commercial carriers has fallen by 15% within Europe and transatlantic business by 33%. In the U.S., which has long led Europe in general aviation, domestic private charter flights have surged 30%, and business to Europe is booming too. World Air Pass, a U.S. broker between jet operators or owners and clients, says flights...
...still-beautiful colors - greens, reds and pastels against vivid blue skies - have been painstakingly cleaned with small poultices of Japanese paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium carbonate. Areas where the paint had fallen, due to humidity or previous restorations, have been filled in with fine hatching: parallel brush strokes in watercolor. The team re-covered the rusting heads of nails used in the late 19th century to anchor plaster to the wall. They removed old fixatives and fillings of unsuitable materials such as cement. They corrected previous attempts at retouching where color had altered or fallen...
Despite the pushing and shoving, the crowd was friendly. I fell to the floor several times in waves of jumping bodies, but was pulled to my feet before I could even realize I had fallen. The sense of camaraderie peaked near the end of the set when Casey announced it was time for a Murphys tradition—when the audience joins arm-in-arm with their neighbors, like a set of drunken pub-goers. Sweaty, beer drenched and smiling, the crowd swayed and jumped in unison...
...example of the type of old student concern that has fallen by the wayside: alcohol. From all accounts, Lee and the council haven’t asked for it. Springfest at most schools—nearby Brown, for example—includes drinking. Here at Harvard, alcohol has been gone from Springfest for so long (okay, four years) that students don’t even remember that it was once an option. Would it be expensive? Sure—so charge for cheap tickets, say $5 or so (and give the folks who still don’t want...