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...last year. "The people who stop buying papers aren't people who don't want information any more," says the title's editor in chief Giovanni De Mauro. "They're people looking for a different type of information." In Italy, at least, publishers looking to save their papers could start by satisfying readers' hunger...
...fact that French private enterprise is surging in the middle of the world's worst economic crisis in 50 years is as surprising as its cause. The motor driving all that bustling start-up action is an innovation known as auto-entrepreneur, a government scheme introduced in January to help would-be bosses bypass the formidable process of founding a small business. The scheme cuts through the jungle of administrative red tape usually required to launch a company, and dramatically lightens the heavy taxes and social charges companies pay. While other firms face set charges whether business is booming...
...some caveats to the scheme's accomplishments. First, it's primarily aimed at individuals who already have jobs, or at unemployed or retired people who yearn to try their hand at a service they think might find a market. Because of that, new companies created by auto-entrepreneurs start out as single-person operations - and usually as part-time or moonlighting ventures. If business starts booming, neophyte owners who take on employees have to register under the normal labor regime, which means assuming the taxes and salary-linked social charges that prove so dissuasive to many would-be entrepreneurs...
...sure yet, since none of the vacationing Bartleys could be reached. And we have to assume the burger king isn't actually contemplating a run, but regardless, this is the best excuse we've heard in months. We'll be using it as soon as mandatory sections start. Now if only they were offering The Politics of Congress this semester...
Residents of Samoa are bracing for chaos this month as the Pacific island nation becomes the first country in decades to order motorists to start driving on the opposite side of the road. On the morning of Sept. 7, drivers will switch from the right side of the street - where about two-thirds of the world's traffic moves - to the left, in order to open the nation to low-cost used autos from left-driving Australia and New Zealand. It will mark the world's first road switch since Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone changed sides in the 1970s...