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...same time, one section of the railway will bisect the circular line through the city, providing more direct routes to both Paris airports at either end. That ramped up transport system will also prove vital to meeting another major Paris challenge: keeping its title as the world's leading tourist destination by luring visitors to stay in and around the capital...
...woven into the course of American events,” he said. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a prominent American businessman and the original “robber baron.” He dominated the U.S. economy in the 19th century with his shipping and railway companies, and according to Stiles, was one of the wealthiest men in American history with an estimated net worth in 1877 of $100 million, representing 1 out of every 20 dollars that was in circulation. Stiles said that though many recognize Vanderbilt for his business endeavors, the businessman’s personal life...
...sometimes laughing when everyone else in the courtroom laughed. With a shaggy beard and hair that covered his ears and forehead, Qasab, 21, looked older than he appears in the globally circulated pictures captured of him during the Mumbai attacks, when he walked through the city's main railway station in cargo pants, brandishing weapons. Sabahuddin, 25, a head taller than Qasab, extremely thin and wearing a bushy beard and close-cropped hair, also agreed to his new representation. He filled the time during lulls in the proceedings by reading a January issue of the newsmagazine India Today...
...which companies are the top five dream employers? Central Japan Railway and East Japan Railway Co. rose to first and second place (up from 4th and 9th place last year). Japan Post - formerly the public office that the government began to privatize in 2007 - jumped 357 spots to rank 30th. Chubu Electric Power and Kansai Electric Power both gained more than 50 places each to rank...
Guilin's main drag is Zhongshan Lu, running from the railway station toward Solitary Beauty Peak and Folding Brocade Hill - both featuring prominently on tourist itineraries led by flag-waving, fact-quacking guides. But Zhongshan itself is carpeted with an enticing parade of hawkers: barbecued-meat vendors alternate with bootblacks banging their brushes together to attract custom, grizzled farmers hunch over mounds of dried persimmons, and pickled-vegetable sellers rub shoulders with eco-entrepreneurs whose handwritten signboards tout for secondhand MP3 players...