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...relies on. As newspaper after magazine folds or seeks a buyer, pro-payment advocates are affirming ever more urgently that content is expensive to produce and they can't afford to keep giving it away on the Web. The free agents counter that Web publishing is based on getting traffic - the so-called link economy - and pay walls stop that dead. Customers also claim they won't pay. (See how to save your town's newspaper...
...Uganda — He is young, no older than 19. “My name is Yoweri,” he declares, “like the president.” I learn this detail only after I’ve climbed on his motorcycle and weaved through traffic in silence for five minutes...
Yoweri decides to strike up a conversation mid-swerve around a rotary, as he snakes by visibly frustrated drivers in rush-hour congestion who are forced to abide by traffic laws in their larger, relatively cumbersome, and decidedly safer vehicles. I respond through gritted teeth as I clutch my purse and hold onto the seat like my life depends on it, probably because it does...
...same tactics that render the “boda boda” the most convenient transit system in Kampala also make it the most dangerous. To wary city drivers such as my friend, “boda bodas” are rogue marauders careening around the congested traffic like an accident waiting to happen. And they do happen. Often. “Boda boda” crashes are the second leading cause of admission to the city’s main hospital, Mulago...
...July 26, Diane Schuler, a 36-year-old mother of two, plowed her minivan into oncoming traffic after driving the wrong way on New York's Taconic State Parkway for almost two miles, killing herself, her 2-year-old daughter, three young nieces and three men in another car. Her 5-year-old son survived. Police said last week that shortly before the crash, which occurred on a Sunday afternoon as Schuler was driving the kids back from a weekend of camping, she had smoked pot and imbibed more than 10 drinks' worth of vodka. Her blood-alcohol level...