Word: metros
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...Real change began four years ago with the arrival of German retail giant Metro Cash & Carry. Foreign companies are still barred from setting up multi-brand retail outlets in India (single-brand shops, such as Nike and McDonald's, are allowed), but Metro was able to start a wholesaling business and sell directly to mom-and-pop shops, hotels, hospitals and other companies. But because the law still forced Metro to buy produce through the mandi system, there was little chance for improvements. Then Metro convinced the southern state of Karnataka, home to high-tech hub Bangalore, to change...
...particularly liked the Coen Brothers piece about an American tourist (Steve Buscemi), waiting for a Metro train, who does not heed his guidebook's advice (don't make eye contact with strangers) with comic-violent results, Wes Craven's work about a pair of bickering British tourists visiting Oscar Wilde's grave site in the Père-Lachaise cemetery with romantically restorative results, and Tom Twyker's take on a faltering love affair between a pair of young people, one of whom is blind, yet is also a brave and wily navigator of the sighted world. There's even...
...Beyond that, the Journal is not like other newspapers. About the only thing it has in common with your metro daily is the paper they're printed on. Where most newspapers make their money by aggregating mass audiences to read grocery, automobile and classified ads, the Journal's business is built on an elite audience that highly values the information the paper provides. This audience in turns attracts advertising for luxury goods and financial services unavailable to most other dailies...
...Ahmadinejad on the occasion of Iran's first successful experiment in uranium enrichment. The holiday coincides with the anniversary of the date Iran cut ties with the United States after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranians celebrated with a measure of irony, pleased to find the government had decreed the metro system free for the day, but anxious over what Tehran's latest nuclear strides would mean for their country's tense stand-off with the West. "I'm very sorry I forgot to congratulate you," a customer joked to the owner of a bookshop in central Tehran. "Where...
Japan is a trainspotter's paradise. From the 12 separate metro lines that twist beneath Tokyo like a bowl of noodles to the suburban commuter trains packed to bursting every morning and evening, the country runs on rails. In 2005, Japanese traveled 243 billion miles by railroad - nearly 1,900 miles per person. And 49 billion of those miles were covered by the shinkansen, the super-fast bullet trains that make intercity travel as simple as a subway hop. If all you've ever known is the slow torture of Amtrak, you won't believe trains that reach...