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From a high-rise office building just off a freeway in suburban Atlanta, for example, the eight virtual bosses of Popeyes last month orchestrated a restaurant opening in Iceland, designed a new outlet in Honduras and handled a chicken-supply crisis in Fairbanks, Alaska (which is so far from both the Atlanta headquarters and its vendors that it's treated like a foreign outpost...
...breast-and-thigh emergency at the new Popeyes outlet in Fairbanks landed in the e-mail box of Karen Youstin, 43. She's Popeyes' director of international training and operating systems, based in Atlanta. She explains that the hard part about opening a Popeyes in a remote location is not getting people to come for the chicken; it's getting the chicken to the people. Popeyes' chicken is always fresh, never frozen, and the chain normally requires that shipments spend no more than eight days traveling from farm to franchise. But it will take 12 days to transport the chicken...
...People close to the Kremlin have all but admitted in the last few days that their move on NTV is politically motivated. They've justified this on the basis that they see NTV as a rival political party rather than simply a news outlet. So, for example, the Kremlin accused NTV of lying about the sinking of the submarine Kursk, whereas in fact they did some rather good reporting on the incident. So why are they in a mess...
...Jesuit-run radio outlet has several dozen transmitters on a plot 30 km from Rome. They are used to broadcast the Church's message in 35 languages around the world. Residents of two nearby towns have been complaining for years that the signals disrupt doorbells, phones and television sets. Only recently have the health aspects of electromagnetic pollution, dubbed by the Italians elettrosmog, become an issue. A consumer group claims that communities near the transmitters have higher incidences of leukemia among children than those in the rest of the region around Rome, a statistic contested by the Vatican. Two Jesuit...
...geniuses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a great geographical guide. You can also search the larger sites by using the call letters of a specific station to pull in the BBC, for example, or New Jersey's WFMU, which Rolling Stone magazine labeled the best radio outlet in the U.S. Once on the BBC website, which links to five radio channels, I looked through the A-Z Index for a program I've longed to hear: Beatles-vintage D.J. John Peel, whose legendary Peel Sessions, featuring live rock, airs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays...