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...Miede’s experience aboard the Silver Line is exactly what MBTA officials claim the newest branch of the T offers—a quicker, less stressful way to get to and from Logan, and one that will also revitalize the South Boston waterfront, and the route will provide a seamless trip from the Square to as far as the South End and Roxbury...
...seaside sanctuary most favored by Thailand's royal family. With the train taking more than four hours-and the tiresome 200-km road trip lasting almost as long, depending on traffic conditions-the new, thrice-daily airborne hop, at just 45 minutes, will have you on the beach quicker than you can say, "Make mine a Singha." The single-propeller Cessna service-seating up to 12 passengers at a time-has been launched by Siam General Aviation (sga.aero) in conjunction with several Hua Hin hotels, but you don't have to be a guest at a participating property...
Some firms were quicker than others to regard women as executive timber. In his latest book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Management Expert Peter Drucker reports that New York's Citibank was one of the first major companies to go after female M.B.A.s, in the 1970s. Recruiters who were sent out in search of the best male graduates in finance and marketing began reporting back to headquarters that many of the best graduates were women, not men. The bank told them simply to hire the best...
...January, Estes' institute released the results of a three-year study concluding that Medicare patients are being released "sicker and quicker" from the nation's hospitals. The study, which examined medical care in 32 communities in eight states, found that the newly ousted patients, still in need of treatment, often have nowhere else to turn for help...
...volunteers-anybody can contribute or edit articles, and some 16,000 have (there are 500,000 entries in English; the 2005 Encyclopaedia Brittanica has 65,000). See here for more on the wiki phenomenon. Answers.com also provides free plug-ins you can download to your desktop for even quicker access to these fast facts...