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...Before this latest crisis, investment banks and their executives were hailed by the media as heroes. Now they are suddenly cursed as villains. When the big blame game is played, the role of the media should be included on the score sheet. Roger Almeberg, Helsingborg, Sweden...
...crisis of the last weeks. Investment banks and their CEOs and staff were hailed as heroes. Now they suddenly are the villains. The role of the media could also be on the balance sheet, now that it seems to be time for the big blame game. Roger Almeberg, HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN...
What Americans might appreciate is the way local governments are encouraged to come up with their own strategies for meeting the national goals. For example, in Helsingborg, a coastal city of 120,000, buses run on biogas made from garbage and other organic waste from households and nearby farms. It's part of a program that dates from 2000, when city officials decided they would get 20% of municipal vehicles running on renewable fuel by 2010. By 2004, they had reached 23%. "We have upped our target so that 50% of the city's cars, vans and trucks should...
...solid, and it would be extraordinarily confusing if it weren't presented in an organized way," says chairman Garrett Boone. His solution: a U-shape layout that "allows people to pass all the departments in the store, both on the sides and in the center." Ikea, based in Helsingborg, Sweden, directs shoppers around its vast showrooms on preset paths but also allows them to circumvent the traffic pattern with strategically placed "cut-throughs." Customers like them because they provide not only increased mobility but also a clandestine, blows-against-the-empire kind of thrill...
...inflating military spending for many years to come. As the world observes Russia's self-destruction, we can only hope that the present regime will eventually disintegrate before it's too late. Perhaps only then can democracy arise and be born again. John G. Woods Helsingborg, Sweden...