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...9/11, Giuliani understood what needed to be done in New York City, but getting it done was another matter. In 1994, less than a year into his mayoralty, a depressed computer analyst set off a homemade bomb in a No. 4 subway train as it pulled into a busy station in lower Manhattan. The firebomb, built from a mayonnaise jar, a kitchen timer and batteries, hurt more than 40 people. Passengers spilled, screaming, out of the train, some rolling on the platform to try to put out the flames, others beating back the fire with their coats...
...station also may be heeding simple economic realities. The cost of broadcasting rights has risen dramatically, and in recent years pay-cable powerhouse Digital Plus has monopolized high-profile fights like famed matador José Tomás' return to the ring in June after a five-year retirement. Regional stations have staked their claims as well, airing local fights most summer weekends...
...Money, then, rather than politics, seems the driving force behind TVE's shift. The Zapatero government has, in the past few years, loosened the state's grasp on the airwaves, establishing for the first time an independent committee to run the national station and opening the dial to new, private stations - forcing TVE to compete as never before. Bullfighting may still attract a sizeable audience share (El Mundo puts the average at 16%), but these days TVE is more likely to save its bidding power for universally popular offerings like soccer matches...
...London's Houses of Parliament. Since the 1970s, the company has discreetly continued to make clocks for private collectors in extremely limited quantities. Recently acquired by new owners, Dent has a contract to make the largest public clock in all of Europe, at London's St. Pancras station, and will begin, says CEO Frank Spurrell, "to take the business back to its former glory...
...exhaustive deliberations? Because the stakes are high - the potential loss of life above all - for the future of the space shuttle program, which impacts, among other things, the maintenance of the Hubble Telescope and the International Space Station, which can't survive without a space truck capable of delivering heavy construction loads. The investigation's thoroughness is also a direct result of an overhaul of NASA policies following the 2003 Columbia disaster. Asked whether the agency may have gone too far this time in information overload, Shannon, who never broke a sweat making his announcement in a press briefing, said...