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Resorts from Maine to Colorado are pulling back their far-flung ads to aim at drive-market customers, while Coach USA is beefing up its national advertising campaign. "This is totally new territory for the whole industry," says Lee Schissler, Coach USA's senior vice president for national marketing and sales...
...dollar expansion, citing the precedents set by the construction of Harvard Business School on a former swamp and the Kennedy School of Government on a former Red Line train yard. But though expansion is sorely needed, the issue is more complex than a matter of building on new and far-flung land; it will require careful planning and a respectful relationship with the Allston community...
Reports that the U.S. is considering expanding its operations against Al Qaida in places as far-flung as the Philippines and Malaysia underscore the global reach of Osama Bin Laden's networks. A simple glance at the travel itineraries of many key Bin Laden operatives is enough to confirm that their networks have been extremely active in the Muslim regions of the Pacific Rim. And the pattern of anti-American protests in the region following the air strikes on Afghanistan - as well as some longstanding and extremely brutal local Islamic insurgencies with ties to Bin Laden's networks - suggests that...
...Laden's far-flung business dealings have been a tremendous asset to his network. U.S. officials believe he has interests in agricultural companies, banking and investment firms, construction companies and import-export firms around the globe. Says a U.S. official: "This empire is useful for moving people, money, materials, providing cover." Though American authorities did break up two al-Qaeda fund-raising operations in the past year, they have been mostly unsuccessful in finding and freezing bin Laden's assets...
...estimated 7 million kids flew alone last year, about 1% of the total flying public. In an increasingly mobile society, where kids like mine are shuttling between divorced parents or being sent to visit far-flung relatives, this percentage will probably grow. Unfortunately, several cases of airlines' sending kids to the wrong destination are bound to give parents like me the jitters...