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...millions of young people who have roamed the Continent with a pack on their back and Eurail pass in hand can attest, there is something quintessentially European about traveling by train. Or was. European airline deregulation 12 years ago has turned hopping on a plane into a bargain-basement no-brainer. Thanks mostly to the increased competition, improved services and lower prices spawned by regulatory liberalization, air travel in Europe grew at an average annual rate of 4.5% between 1995 and 2005. Over the same period, the total number of miles traveled by all rail passengers chugged along at less...
...with radio signals. Brady's proposed bill (and a companion bill in the Senate) would amend the act to permit targeted interference of mobile-phone service within prisons, while ensuring that emergency calls or other commercial signals near the prison aren't affected. Brady says he hopes Congress will pass the bill by the end of the year...
...active "caches" waiting to be found around the world. One market-research firm estimates the worldwide GPS market will total $75 billion by 2013. Scientists are continually finding new uses for GPS, as well. Meteorologists gauge wind speed and other variables by measuring satellite signals as they pass through the atmosphere; geologists study earthquakes using GPS receivers placed along fault lines; and technicians synchronize computer networks for everything from power grids to financial networks using the satellite signals' precise timing...
...Congress and legislatures in the U.K., Europe, and Japan are faced with whether or not to let key companies in important industries pass into Chines hands. Last year, the Congress effectively blocked a deal for Chinese electronics firm Huawei Technologies to buy 3Com. The reasoning was the U.S. did not want critical telecom equipment intellectual property to be easily accessible to China. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder and Kim Jong Il's father and predecessor. Jong Il, now 67 and ailing after suffering a stroke last summer, is thought to be arranging a succession now; foreign intelligence analysts believe he wants to pass power onto to his youngest son, 26-year-old Kim Jong Un, with Kim's trusted brother-in-law guiding the young man from behind. (See possibly doctored photos of Kim Jong...