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...Despite their paranoid aversion to TV images, the Taliban are learning fast. Last week they admitted several journalists to witness bomb damage in and around Kandahar. More will follow. The world?s only military superpower has failed to embrace the new tyranny of real-time information transparency in war. Low-cost video cameras and mobile phones can nimbly upstage billion-dollar information-processing systems and hierarchical command-and-control structures...
...major airlines complain a one-bag rule will be too difficult, tell them to call Ryanair, the low-cost, European airline that is already using a new system. According to Jef McAllister, Time's London Bureau Chief, who flew the carrier recently, it's a welcome change. Last weekend McAllister took Ryanair from London to Brussels and on the outbound leg had to follow a rigid one carry on bag per person rule (and no big ones). On the way back, things go more serious: there were no carry-ons allowed at all. "I had to check my computer...
...from the looks of it, Wolf has merely sped up his own death prediction by a few years: US Airways now wants to compete in the most viciously competitive part of the air travel market - the low-cost segment now patrolled by the likes of Southwest and JetBlue. US Airways has long carried the highest costs in the industry; Southwest and JetBlue are the lowest-cost, highest-efficiency sharks in the water...
...feet) than any other non-rocket-powered plane. The possible uses are twofold. NASA hopes that this test will help it to design aircraft that can fly in the thin Martian atmosphere. And some entrepreneurial sorts think that eventually a network of these high-flying birds could serve as low-cost alternatives to communications satellites...
...down from 8% only three years ago. But manufacturing jobs are fast disappearing because it is vastly cheaper to produce equipment like telephone handsets in Asia, says Jan Grönlund, state secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications. "We can't compete as a low-cost country," partly because social costs - including taxes and other company outlays for the unemployed - are so high. Even though the French government is using its best rhetoric to discourage layoffs - threatening to forbid them in profitable companies, for example - jobs in France are also disappearing. Alcatel, the big French telecom firm...