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...less expensive since his return. At the end of each month, he gets a call from his two sons, who are working illegally in Georgia. They give him a code number, and he drives or rides his horse four miles to the nearest Western Union, located in a government telegraph office, to pick up the $600 they spent $40 to wire to him. Less expensive remittance services are available at the nearby Banamex bank in Mazatepec, but so far, Patricio and his neighbors aren't willing to travel the eight miles to get there. Besides, he says...
Since its founding as a telegraph company in 1851, Western Union has pioneered the stock ticker (1867), the electronic money transfer (1871), the credit card (1914), the singing telegram (1933) and intercity facsimile service (1935). But since 1995, when it became a division of the Denver-based First Data Corp., the world's biggest credit-card processor, Western Union has focused on electronic payments. Western Union processed nearly a billion checks and money orders in 2001 and is the biggest mortgage-payment processor in the U.S. It has also become a leader in the gift-card market, with clients including...
...years after coming to Radcliffe, Madox has written articles for The Economist, the London Times and the Daily Telegraph. She’s authored eight books and won two Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the British Silver Pen Award, a Whitbread Award nomination and the Critics Circle Award for her writing...
...world's largest flower (the yard-wide Rafflesia arnoldii) and the world's longest book (the Javanese Book of Kings, 6 million words long). Above all, Winchester is delightfully alert to history's ironies and synchronicities. The destruction of Krakatoa occurred just as the global net of telegraph cables--the Victorian version of the Internet--was being completed, and the disaster became the world's first mass-media news sensation. "Millions of people hitherto unknown to one another," he writes, "began to involve themselves, for the first time ever, in looking beyond their hitherto limited horizons of self." Paradoxically, even...
...Lying low is not the sort of thing that comes easy to him, but he may be forced to learn how as the crisis on the Korean peninsula deepens. - By Unmesh Kher and Tim Burge follow the money britain In Baghdad's looted, fire-blackened Foreign Ministry, a Daily Telegraph journalist looking through abandoned files found one labeled "Britain." In it were documents allegedly indicating that Saddam's regime paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to left-wing Labour backbencher George Galloway - a longtime campaigner against sanctions on Iraq - and that Galloway had even demanded a raise. The Glasgow...