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...Still, it isn't clear that such wizardry will-or can-do anything to change the firm's fortunes. The early adopters have already snapped up their Segways. Now the company has to convince everybody else that they need this thing. To help give people a feel for the machine, Segway has established a network of 102 independent dealerships operating in 116 locations across the country, many of which try to gin up business by running Segway-powered sightseeing tours. David Floyd, a dealer in Estes Park, Col., says about one tourist in 30 returns to buy a PT from...
...icons of photography as we knew it tumbled. Polaroid went bust in 2001. Kodak stopped making film cameras in 2004. Now, however, it's the sellers of digital cameras themselves who have to worry about possible extinction. With the summer photo-snapping season in full swing, market-research firm IDC is predicting that consumers in Japan and Western Europe will buy fewer digital cameras this year than they did last year (in fact, the numbers already declined in Japan in 2005). Around the world, [an error occurred while processing this directive] they'll purchase only 10% more cameras than...
...doing nothing to stop growing numbers of employers from prying into the lifestyles of potential recruits. The Geneva-based World Health Organization launched a hiring ban on smokers in December 2005, the same month Sophie Blinham was fired just minutes into her new job at an English data communications firm after admitting she smoked. Von Schnurbein insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur...
...walls and decor in the style of Memorial Hall. But members of the Loker Pub Project at first considered sketches that would have made the pub look more like a modern sushi bar than an 18th century British watering hole. The Loker Pub Project initially hired the Boston architecture firm Office dA to conduct a feasibility study last fall. But when the firm’s designers drew up conceptual sketches for a pub that had a more modern feel, students—both those involved with the project and those consulted in focus groups—expressed a desire...
...threaten the very survival of the Mediterranean bluefin. The volume of tuna caught in the Mediterranean has soared in just a few years. Indeed, it tripled between the summer of 2002 and late last year, according to a report last November by Advanced Tuna Ranching Technologies (ATRT), a consultancy firm in Madrid. Why? Blame the worldwide taste for sushi. European Union fishing subsidies haven't helped, either - they enable fishermen to buy new boat engines, the better to compete against the high-tech fleets that have set up in the Mediterranean. Many Spanish and French fishing companies have used...