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...first tried the e-mail stunt earlier this year with Friends, a star-studded buddy flick set in the port city of Pusan in the 1970s. Using a name list culled from an online site, his company, Korea Pictures, fired off a video pitch featuring the film's star Jang Dong Gun (sort of a South Korean Tom Cruise) to 1 million hard-core moviegoers. The movie this month became Korea's biggest blockbuster ever. It's hard to know exactly how much the Internet helped, but if an online pitch is going to work anywhere, it's in Korea...
Such airline idiocies make everyone mad--but Freni is one person who's actually doing something about it. A day after making his observations, Freni, director of aviation operations for the Massachusetts Port Authority, shoots off a detailed report to the offending carrier. "Airlines have been responsive to our reports before," says a grimacing Freni. "They'll make some changes...
...pollution give way to rice paddies and simple villages. Crossing countless bridges, you're soon deep into a virtual marshland. Ferries ply the many canals and waterways in a constant cycle of to and fro, back and forth. At the mouth of the Karnaphuli river lies Bangladesh's main port. The country's second city, Chittagong has been a center of trade and transport for 2,000 years. Porters lean almost prone as they haul carts piled 4 m high along the quay. Stroll the boulevards of decaying colonial storefronts and the pungent waterfront in the old city to trace...
...change has been positive. Tourism is rising, the flight of Marseillais has halted, and young, affluent professionals from around the country are moving in. "I have never seen people so enthusiastic about Marseilles," says native Jöel Merle, who manages a real-estate agency on Marseilles' historic Vieux Port. But can the honeymoon last? Marseilles' real-estate market has long been undervalued, compared to Paris and most other French cities, says Merle, but prices are climbing. They could rise further as new arrivals compete for scarce housing, possibly pushing out locals of more modest means. It's also...
...World Bank's decision doesn't exactly bode well for next month's summit of G8 leaders in the Italian city of Genoa. Up to 100,000 protestors are expected to try and reach the fabled port to register their discontent with President Bush and the other leaders of the world's most industrialized nations - and that has city authorities extremely worried, particularly in light of the difficulties in policing its narrow streets. They reportedly considered holding the summit on a ship in the bay, but later decided that would be a colossal humiliation. Still, they're planning to billet...