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Madonna has invaded Hong Kong. The pop megastar's likeness adorned most of the city's billboards this spring, her music was piped through its subway stations, and baseless rumors had crowds lining up for nearly a mile down Queen's Road to catch a glimpse of the Material Girl in person...
...public office - the country dacha, the ZIL limousine, the special shops and the insularity of working behind a telephone-covered desk. He and his wife, Naina, lived in an apartment near the center of town, from which he drove to work or, frequently, took a bus or the subway - to the shock and delight of citizens accustomed to seeing nothing of party big shots but the gray curtains of their speeding ZILs. His popularity increased when he began breezing into food and clothing stores, scolding clerks for rudeness and managers for incompetence. And he became an absolute idol when...
...they want every travel convenience - as a new airline taking off from the heart of the city has discovered. Until recently, the only airport serving Canada's largest metropolis had been Lester B. Pearson International Airport, located 20 miles from the city centre. The airport is not accessible by subway, so downtowners have to slog through traffic snarls to get there. That looked like an opportunity to aviation entrepreneur Robert Deluce, who, last October, launched Porter Airlines. Porter offered 10 round-trip flights every week day to Ottawa (and later, to Montreal), taking off and landing at idyllic Toronto Island...
...Meanwhile, Woodroffe says he intends to rent Yotel rooms for as little as $49 for a four-hour stay. That will be possible because he plans to roll out Yotels at airports (a Heathrow Yotel is slated to open this summer) and other travel hubs such as train and subway stations, where guests in transit may require rooms only for a shower and a nap. Like restaurants that turn over tables many times an evening, "We think we can let the rooms 21/2 times a day," Woodroffe says - that's a target occupancy rate...
...bursting every morning and evening, the country runs on rails. In 2005, Japanese traveled 243 billion miles by railroad - nearly 1,900 miles per person. And 49 billion of those miles were covered by the shinkansen, the super-fast bullet trains that make intercity travel as simple as a subway hop. If all you've ever known is the slow torture of Amtrak, you won't believe trains that reach 170 mph, depart for major cities at least six times an hour, and measure punctuality in tenths of seconds. Still, the Japanese want to go faster...