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...reports are that he’s fine,” she said. “The first scan looks OK. And they’re stitching him up, and they’re going to keep him overnight for observation...
...opportunity. The end of the cold war had similar long-term consequences, since it was followed by the integration into the world economy of virtually all of those countries which, by choice or not, had been excluded from it. The global supply of manufacturing labor more than doubled virtually overnight. In the context of largely open world markets, this has meant continuing downward pressure on global production costs. With upward of a billion people set to enter the urban labor markets of China, India, Brazil and Indonesia over the next 20 years, this pressure will only intensify. Should you doubt...
Communications are expected to be a huge headache yet again. During Katrina, New Orleans overnight lost $500 million worth of telecom structure--fiber-optic and copper wire--leaving the city's emergency-operations center at city hall with a superfast T1 line as useless as a set of tin cans. Deputy mayor Meffert ended up handing out Nextel walkie-talkies for all the out-of-town help and cobbling together a voice-over-Internet communications system out of old computers, which still serves the city...
...again. Crime had become atomized here--it was part of the culture, the air, the dark humor of the place. Under normal circumstances, criminologists believe, there are two ways to stop a cycle of gang violence: either dismantle the gangs or disrupt their business. In New Orleans, both happened overnight. Hurricane Katrina sundered what no man could, sending the criminals fleeing in all directions. So now there was a mystery: What would happen next? What would become of the criminal population when stripped of its neighborhood affiliations, its drug suppliers and a well-worn black-market infrastructure? This...
...Austrian Alps leaves you spoiled for choice. There are 600 peaks topping the 3,000-m mark, 15,000 km of trails and hundreds of farmhouses and taverns for rest and relaxation (read flagons of beer and plates of hearty grub). A favorite spot for meals and overnight accommodation is the Gruttenh?tte, reached after a thrilling trek up the Wilder Kaiser. Read more at austria-tourism.at...