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...four years ago, the annual number of domestic and international air passengers has nearly doubled from 48.8 million in the year ended March 31, 2004, to 95 million. Meanwhile nine private airlines have started up in recent years. Some, such as Kingfisher Airlines, are full service, but most are low-cost carriers that have wooed millions of travelers away from India's sluggish train and bus networks-and into its sluggish airports, which lack sufficient gates, baggage-handling equipment and other facilities to manage the influx. The crunch at New Delhi's airport is so bad that India's Aviation...
...truth is that, low-cost airlines such as Skybus are also low-conscience airlines. The cost of air travel will be paid, if not by travelers, then by the environment. America should consider a way of factoring the externalities of air travel into the cost of a ticket, just has been proposed by the European Commission...
Negroponte has his skeptics (including Bill Gates) but is undismayed. "The cynics can be as cynical as they want," he says. "If this makes the industry address low-power, low-cost laptops that can be used in very remote places, that's perfect...
During yesterday’s meeting between Harvard officials and residents of the Charlesview Apartments, Harvard officials outlined ways in which the University plans to respond to Allston residents’ concerns, which include increased noise, vibrations, and rodent presence owing to construction. The Charlesview Apartments are a low-cost housing community located in the heart of the University’s new Allston campus, near the Harvard Business School and the Soldiers Field Athletic Center...
...Mahatma Gandhi, who challenged him to return after the war to help house India's poor. In 1945, Baker did. Using mud, brick and other local materials, he engineered innovative, exuberant structures, many with pierced brick screens that dappled light and cooled rooms with natural air movement. Baker's low-cost, eco-friendly style, which became known as the "Baker method," inspired an organization of younger Indian architects that has, since the '80s, built homes for more than 10,000 poor families...