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...some are losing jobs, others are profiting from the new market. The duty on alcohol and tobacco, for example, was lifted for individual travelers. "We enjoy drinking wine, but we cannot afford it at British prices," said Barbara Green, the wife of a taxi driver from the British port of Ramsgate whose family went on a cross-Channel shopping spree. Charging down the aisles of a Calais supermarket, the Greens scooped up five crates of beer, five bottles of whiskey and 38 bottles of wine. "These are for our wedding anniversary," she said. With Barbara's mother stocking...
Johannesburg, meanwhile, was virtually shut down by a violent taxi-driver strike. The protesters, whose minibuses daily shuttle thousands of blacks between the city and adjacent townships, claim they are constantly harassed by traffic police. Gasoline-bomb attacks against government-owned buses and a blockade of city streets led to pitched battles with security forces, during which at least two people were killed and 100 injured...
...country's whirlwind transformation from behind a steering wheel. He has watched younger clients supplant older ones, businessmen replace communists, big-time hoods succeed small-time hustlers. He has gone from working for the state to owning his own cab, a pioneer in privatization. He has seen his taxi meter rendered obsolete by the base law of supply and demand that allows drivers to name their price for every trip. Once fearful of foreigners, he has learned to seek them out, knowing, like all cabbies, that most foreigners will pay more. Through it all, he has listened. "Some talk about...
Even the best-managed cities have trouble coping with the crush of population growth. Tokyo is overwhelmed by its own trash -- 22,000 tons each day -- despite massive recycling and incineration programs. Ironically, Japanese fastidiousness is a big part of the problem. In a city where taxi drivers wear spotless white gloves, Tokyo consumers want wrappers around virtually anything they...
...student said she immediately went back to her room, left a message for her roommates, took a taxi to the train station and went home to Providence, Rhode Island. She said that she returned to Cambridge Sunday evening...