Word: hubs
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...surprisingly, environmentalists contend that technologies and strategies already exist to meet a sharp reduction in carbon emissions from power plants, oil refineries and other sources. And better technology, they insist, will be developed as a result of the new law. "California is positioning itself to become the hub of a new clean energy economy based on solar energy, ethanol and other renewable fuels," says Bernadette del Chiaro of Environment California, a Sacramento-based group. "These will be the next Silicon Valley industries for California to export to the rest of the world...
Megabus This U.S. version of a popular British bus line models itself after low-fare airlines, with colorful vehicles and hip styling. Eight Midwestern cities are linked to its Chicago hub with ticket prices as low as $1. More typical fares are $5 to Milwaukee, Wis., and $20 to St. Louis...
...problem has become so acute in Singapore?which aspires to become a regional hub for wealth-management?that the government has helped to create a vocational school to groom aspiring private bankers (see next story...
...always an ordeal, but this year, it's far more strenuous than usual. Almost a week after the foiling of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes flying across the Atlantic, international air traffic remains snarled, especially at British airports, including Heathrow, the world's busiest international hub. Thousands of passengers - and their bags - have been stranded there, and the airlines and the company that runs Heathrow are now engaged in a nasty dispute over who should foot the bill...
...nestled in mulga scrub on an uncharacteristic hill above the Nullarbor, close to the South Australian border-Eucla has a work ethic that could put many city folk to shame. As well as an industrious roadhouse, police station, meteorological office and quarantine center, the 50-resident village is a hub for shark fishing and starling shooting (the bird is considered a pest in Western Australia). "We're either sleeping or working," says local mechanic Rodney Fowler, 60, proudly wearing his eucla spirit of the desert windcheater...