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...Radio booming from the speakers, but that doesn't provide much relaxation. ''It took me months to figure out whether Somalis traditionally drive on the right or the left,'' he says. (It's the right.) ''With no traffic cops, anything goes.'' Swimming at the tempting beaches on the Indian Ocean isn't recommended: two foreigners were killed this year by sharks. Do the perils of this story get the Nairobi-based Purvis down? A little, he admits. ''The decision to come here can be trying, although I always feel better when I'm on the plane...
...Alaska, not a required course, is an agreeable extra. For Bill and Joan Armstrong of Philadelphia, who had seen Westminster Abbey and the Swiss Alps, the ship itself was an attraction. Gliding by at 20 knots, the view is astonishing: the vast Hubbard and Columbia glaciers tumbling into the ocean, the green islands of the Inside Passage, the jagged, snowblown Chugach mountain range. Landfalls are on a different scale. Skagway is a small, ramshackle old gold-rush boomtown made cheerful and shiny for tourists. Juneau, a brisk, up- all-night little city of 30,000, is the place to visit...
...little greener, a little more skittish,'' says Pan Am's Richman. For all the indications that the tourist slide had stopped, however, the doleful fact remained that the European tourist business this summer will remain rotten, especially compared with 1985, when a record 6.4 million Americans crossed the ocean. Says Carlo Mole, chairman of C.I.T., Italy's largest tour operator: ''It is useless to kid ourselves. This season is done...
...case involved the online auctioneer eBay, which Tiffany had sued after counterfeit jewelry was sold on eBay's site. The judge did say that companies like Tiffany can do the policing themselves and order websites to remove online material that flouts trademarks. But even for big firms, patrolling an ocean as vast as the Internet for intellectual-property shenanigans is daunting. For small ones like Fobis, "it's almost impossible. The research involved is very expensive," says Jean Edwards, an intellectual-property-law expert in Washington, D.C., for the Miami-based firm of Akerman Senterfitt. Rulings like the eBay verdict...
...fend off the unsolicited merger, Anheuser-Busch management last month itself unveiled its own "Blue Ocean" cost-cutting program, promising savings of $1.09 billion by 2011 but losing around 1,200 jobs in the process. And with global recession threatening, beer markets consolidating, barley and aluminum prices soaring, and sales declining in many mature markets, there are fears of further cuts. Tellingly, Brito made no promises on job cuts, nor on the sale of non-core assets like Anheuser-Busch's theme parks and its aluminium can recycling units...