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Seeking a different kind of holiday has meant that British visitors to Denmark's second city, Aarhus, have multiplied six-fold since Ryanair started its regular service and have become the second-largest group of foreign tourists, after Swedes. Local businesses are delighted to see the newcomers, since they occupy about 25,000 bed-nights a year, spending an average of 3177 a day. "They come because they want to experience Denmark," says Steen Berg, head of the Aarhus tourist board. "They enjoy walking around the old streets, watching the cyclists, visiting the cathedral and museums. It is pure pleasure...
...meet the demands of Kyoto, the European Union adopted a target of producing 22% of electricity from renewable resources - hydro power and biomass in addition to wind power - by 2010. Merrill Lynch, the investment firm, said in a recent report that it expects wind power to grow 15-fold over the next 20 years, raising its market share to 6% in Europe and 5% in the U.S. Another factor in the popularity of wind power is that the technology is steadily improving. The market is analogous to computer chips, with performance vastly increasing while price is coming down. Back...
...French business celebrity by turning the sleepy water utility Compagnie Generale des Eaux into a $51 billion global media giant, Vivendi Universal. Messier did it with a six-year buying spree that brought Universal Studios, USA networks and a number of European media and telecom companies into the fold. His promise was to create a company that "will be the world's preferred creator and provider of personalized information, entertainment and services to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices...
...Indeed, the leader's son talks of ultimately attracting every living Japanese soul?all 130 million of them?to the fold. "I'm sure it will happen," says Katsue Asai, matter-of-factly. How long will it take? "A bit more than 10 years. At the most, 20 years. This might sound strange," he says, "but we think this is not only about Japan, but the whole universe. A huge power is coming, sometime soon. Society is getting really confused these days. There are problems with education, all the political scandals. Then there will be a big natural disaster, like...
...certainly involved,” Lewis says. “[But] it’s a little confusing to take some of the major conclusions from the subject of the book to apply them to the Ivy League. We are in many cases different despite their attempts to fold us into their conclusions...