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...every American city would have its own city-size hot spot. It would be too cheap to meter! But the legal, technological, financial and political practicalities of municipal wi-fi have been much harder to work out than anyone expected. Even mighty Google had to back down from its plan to flood all of San Francisco with free wi-fi. Downtown Spokane, Wash., is online, though, so I guess there's still hope...
Marriott's Courtyard and Hilton's Garden Inn, currently the leaders in the upscale sector, don't plan on letting these trends pass them by. Marriott redesigned the lobby of its Fair Oaks, Va., location with a bar, communal-seating areas and a snack area. "It used to be that guests went in the room and latched the door," says Brian King of Courtyard. "Now they want to come out." The new design will be rolled out at most of the 700 locations by 2010. Like Aloft, Marriott is also eliminating the long, chest-high check-in desk, replacing...
There have been changes higher up the chain of command too. In the past few months, New Delhi has promised an extra $153 million for tiger conservation, outlined a plan to move 200,000 people away from the edges of tiger parks and said it wants to expand tiger reserves. But with the conviction rate for poaching still pitifully low, saving tigers will often come down to better park management...
...quick way to spot weight problems it can reveal a lot. Officials also eliminated junk-food vending machines in all elementary schools--a policy that's becoming more common around the U.S.--and added half an hour of daily physical education to the school curriculum. The plan has had its critics, but Thompson knows that without help, children in Arkansas--poor, relatively rural--face a lifetime struggle against obesity...
...widely accepted way for a candidate to deal with them. Basically, it's not to. Otherwise, according to prevailing wisdom, all a candidate achieves is to elevate the rumors to a legitimate story for the media to feast on. That don't-go-there approach was Barack Obama's plan for months until, on the candidate's first full day of campaigning as his party's presumed presidential nominee, a reporter from McClatchy Newspapers who was traveling aboard his plane asked him about a particularly toxic bit of hearsay that was zooming around the Internet about his wife Michelle. Obama...