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...half its bookings (Disney World, for instance) should focus fresh attention and advertising dollars on potential visitors within driving distance. Visit Florida, the Tallahassee-based official tourism marketing agency for Florida, will allow its entire $2 million emergency budget to be used for in-state advertising, and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a massive direct-mail campaign throughout the Southeast. Las Vegas is directing a $13 million advertising effort at markets within a 750-mile radius. One week after the terror attacks, the management at the tony Canyon Ranch spa persuaded 67 East Coast-based...
...Wadsworth Ct., Fort Wayne, IN: The parents of Ben D. Mathis-Lilley ‘03 get long-distance telephone service installed in their new home. This installation is accompanied by a 100-piece marching band, giant “Veritas” banners and AT&T service representative “Gary...
Data are gold to the financial community, and Wall Street protected them like the bullion at Fort Knox. Brokerages, banks and other finance companies are required by law to back up securities transaction data, and in the last decade those organizations became some of the most sophisticated buyers of IT storage services, contracting with companies such as EMC and Hitachi for the latest devices, and archiving their digital records in remote, bunker-like facilities operated by companies like Iron Mountain, based in Boston. Account records and trading transactions are typically backed up in real time...
Every other month for more than 15 years, Gray, 57, has been making a humanitarian-aid run to Latin America to personally deliver food, clothes, wheelchairs, medicines and other essentials to thousands of orphans and other homeless souls. A onetime Fort Worth trial lawyer, Gray gave up a lucrative practice in the late 1980s to create Orphans of the World, a charity that he runs with his wife Mary and a tiny staff from a group of cluttered warehouses next to his home in Grand Prairie, Texas. "Cam looked in the mirror as he was shaving one day and didn...
...Peshawar On the road down from the Khyber Pass, TIME photographer John Stanmeyer jumps out of our car to take pictures of Pakistani soldiers marching to an old British fort on a craggy hilltop. A narrow-faced man from Pakistani military intelligence (ISI) happens to drive by in a pickup truck and accuses Stanmeyer of being a spy. The two of us are quickly taken to the fort for interrogation. An army officer intercedes and gains our release two hours later; he gestures apologetically at the ISI man, who is fuming over our good luck. The officer cautions: "You know...