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This burgeoning of national high-speed networks is allowing trains to challenge airlines on shorter trips even before deregulation comes into force. The Eurostar service - the lucrative 21⁄4-hour route between London and Paris - already controls 70% of the travel market between the two capitals. Opened in 2007, a high-speed rail link between Madrid and Barcelona that cut intercity travel time to 21⁄2 hours has grabbed 50% of that market. Similar effects have been seen in Paris-Lyon, Paris-Brussels and Hamburg-Berlin transport links, where domination by fast trains has led airlines to reduce...
...company's track to operate its high-speed Intercity-Express (ICE) trains between eastern France and Paris. But, despite their cooperation on some routes, DB and SNCF are locking horns over Eurostar. The French have a majority stake in Eurostar, which also includes the Belgians and the U.K.'s London and Continental Railways (LCR). DB has made no secret that it is looking to buy LCR's 33% stake - which the French also covet, in part to deny DB its dream of extending its routes into the U.K. Meanwhile, the German group has ordered 15 new ICE locomotives with...
...behold, the atheist bus war that raged through London earlier this year has led to the opening of a front in the U.S. The Chicago ads were purchased this month (for a total of $5,000) by the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign...
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...Futurism," at London's Tate Modern from June 12 to Sept. 20, shows what happened when the Italians collided with French, Russian, British and American painters. After a visit to Paris in 1911, they borrowed the Cubists' fragmented forms and variable viewpoints, while the Cubists became more louche and vivid under Italian influence. (See 10 things to do in London...