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With someone else bearing the burden of the golden fleece as the Tour sped through northern France, Armstrong settled in near the front of the peloton, where accidents are less likely to occur. (A near crash on July 13 cost him 27 seconds.) As expected, the Postal Service team didn't begin its express delivery until the first mountain stage, in the Pyrenees on July 18, when Armstrong was 26 seconds behind González de Galdeano. One by one the Posties burned themselves out and fell away like booster stages on a rocket launch as they led Armstrong...
...going to get much help for their cause any time soon. The opening- up of new routes for tourists also enables companies to pitch for business they were never able to get before. Dijon, previously accessible only by road or train, got its Buzz link in March; the northern French city estimates that British visitors will bring in at least 35 million this year. Officials, noting that already around 20% of British passengers are business travelers, plan to exploit that traffic by promoting the city as a location for conferences and conventions. They calculate that for British companies a three...
...Adams' subjects are vast, ancient and rocky. His images of plants are delicate and detailed. In Trailside, near Juneau, Alaska (1947), briar leaves displaying every vein and dewdrop form a pattern with flowers and grass. Aspens, Northern New Mexico (1958) shows one small tree, its leaves drenched in sunlight, against a backdrop of grey stems and deep shadows. It's almost worth spending all your time at the show gazing at one such image...
...interests of local kingpins were aligned with those of the central government, life might go on much as before. But increasingly they are not, and abuses have transformed China from a straightjacketed but ordered society into another chaotic and corrupt developing country. Across northern China, for example, local officials are ignoring a more forgiving tax code championed by Beijing and instead are forcing peasants to pay exorbitant taxes on land that ceased to be fertile years ago. In other places such as Henan, Fujian and Gansu provinces, local bosses have taken central government funds for combating drugs, human smuggling...
...company will still have to pay an amount double the current national import tariff to ship his sneakers from Shanghai to the central city of Chongqing, because of protectionist fees imposed by provincial governments. Earlier this year, a U.S. automaker discovered that sending a sedan from Shanghai to northern Ningxia province is more expensive than shipping it from Detroit to Shanghai because truckers have to pay a toll?read bribe?every time their load of new cars crosses a provincial border. An Australian lawyer in Shanghai says she discarded her copy of the Chinese legal code when it became clear...