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...city's ability to lure visitors back. For better or worse, New Orleans has long staked a disproportionate share of its economic health on the tourism and convention business. Before Katrina, tourist spending pumped up to $6 billion into the local economy, employed 80,000 and fueled more than one-third of the city's operating budget. Getting those visitors back is key to the city's recovery, and to its long-term viability - perhaps even more so in a smaller, post-Katrina economy, when luring new business and industry will likely be an even greater challenge than...
...membranes, no consumables of any kind. It takes any input of water - you don't even have to pretest it - and what comes out is pure, distilled water. It meets the U.S. pharmacopoeia standard for water that can be injected. It's astounding. And it takes one-third the power of a handheld dryer to make a thousand liters of water a day, which, based on the World Health Organization's standards, is enough for a village of 100 people. And if you've got a few hundred people, you put a couple of machines...
...cars can tattle on them. But among those in the know--civil libertarians, law enforcement agents and consumer advocates--a debate is surging over the black boxes technically called event-data recorders (EDRs). While some welcome them as a safety measure, others fear them as an Orwellian intrusion. Nearly one-third of vehicles on the road today--and 64% of this year's models--contain the little-noticed chips and sensors. Unlike flight recorders on airplanes, these microcomputers don't capture voices, but they can retain up to 20 seconds of data on speed, braking and acceleration in the lead...
...Storm. He suggests gays are on average "more affluent, more interested in style and brands, and travel more" than their straight counterparts. Moreover, some research indicates that merely delivering a gay-tailored message is enough to create a long-term relationship. According to the Outright 2006 survey, more than one-third of British gays and lesbians claim that tailored advertising in gay media will foster their loyalty to a brand - regardless of the quality relative to other brands. Gay consumers react kindly to companies "speaking to a part of their identity that is usually ignored," suggests David Muniz, commercial director...
...Council voted to bar U.N. member states from trading missile-related technology and materials with the North. South Korea is holding back rice and fertilizer aid; Japan is preparing to impose its own economic sanctions including tough restrictions on high-tech exports to the North. Then Typhoon Ewiniar battered one-third of the country, leaving upward of 60,000 villagers homeless...