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Human beings have a habit of making traffic wherever they go. Give us a new means of transportation, and pretty soon highways, sea-lanes and airline routes are filled with vehicles. Now add to that deep space...
...plans come after two rough quarters for Starbucks, which saw traffic and comparable-stores sales in its U.S. business fall for the first time ever. The slip is partly due to softening consumer spending, but Starbucks executives insist that by retraining the company on a coffee-centric customer experience, they can revive sales and the brand. "This is in many ways self-induced," says Schultz. "That's why I feel so confident and optimistic we can fix it ourselves...
Innovation like that could also help to strangle music piracy; some 20 billion files were downloaded illegally in 2006. The music business has called on Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which host that traffic, to do more to choke it off, and an agreement was reached in France late last year requiring ISPs to stop large-scale copyright infringers. But to shake off its blues, the record business must itself continue to break old habits. Saying yes to rehab is a start, but returning to health is going to take a sustained dose of discipline and imagination...
...Noah Selsby ’95, client technology advisor for FAS IT, blames the wireless “problem areas” on areas of “extreme traffic” rather than poor design. But in Kroll’s opinion, blame for this traffic should primarily be placed on Harvard, which apparently doesn’t own enough network addresses for so many students at a given time. “My suggestion is that Harvard try to buy some from MIT,” Kroll says.Kroll also maintains that the antiquity and spatial design...
...encounters will likely depend on where it next wants to locate the center. As for the roads, any new plan will probably include closing the A344. But little will be done to the worse-offending A303; the government says it will consider only "small scale measures" to improve its traffic flows. Which means tranquility at prehistoric Stonehenge will also continue to be a relic of the past...