Word: rickshaws
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...discourage urinating in public, which all failed, abysmally. But at the same time, awareness programs to teach people "manners" on the Delhi Metro have shown that Delhi residents can be taught to stand in queues. The Delhi government has been training police to learn basic English and auto-rickshaw drivers to deal more courteously with customers. But the challenge before Chief Minister Dixit's civic-education program is huge: How do you get Delhi residents to put their best face on for a city they don't even consider to be theirs...
...complaint is that, while every occurrence described could have taken place, it's hard to accept so many unusual things happening to the same people. The narrator, for example, might have gone from looking down upon rickshaw pullers to loving one, sparred with FBI agents and crossed paths with a famous gangster - but all of those things...
...typical weekend afternoon, Beijing's Silk Street Market buzzes with the sound of tens of thousands of tourists haggling over antiques, jewelry and knock-off Gucci handbags. Rickshaw drivers normally scoop up these marketgoers, pedal them to their hotels and return with pockets full of foreign currency - a lucrative cycle drivers can repeat dozens of times a day. In recent months, though, the Silk Street Market's once reliable bustle has thinned dramatically. "I haven't seen a single tour bus pulling into the market this morning," says Lao Qian, a 49-year-old rickshaw driver taking a long lunch...
...flew into Phnom Penh International Airport and took a tuk-tuk (a motorized rickshaw) into town. It was a $5, 45-min., open-air trip on the highway, which probably did bad things to our lungs but helped ease my motion sickness from our wobbly descent to the airport. It also gave us a nice visual primer of the capital, which we were using only as a way station. Looking back, I would have liked at least another day in Phnom Penh to take in the culture - the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, for example - and the laid-back, late...
...outside the big cities. "It's kind of like the iPod," says Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied the Tata Group for years. The Nano is a blank slate, he explains, that makes people think, What can you do with it? What if auto-rickshaw drivers bought Nanos, for example, and used them as more profitable, safer taxis? Or if farmers used them to bring their goods to market more quickly...