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...used purely technological approaches to fight piracy, such as restricting the operation of peer-to-peer applications” that allow students to download files illegally. Levine said he also opposed this option, noting that many peer-to-peer applications were difficult to find because they often encrypt their traffic. And some peer-to-peer programs, he added, are used for “perfectly legal purposes.” —Staff writer Alaxander B.Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu
...Local recreation includes camel trekking in the desert, snorkeling in the Gulf or skiing down indoor slopes. Becoming an international metropolis also has its down side: Besides the soaring real estate prices and inflation estimated at 20%, other undesirable features of life in the new Dubai include massive daily traffic jams, a rise in prostitution, and growing discontent among the legions of mostly Asian laborers imported for the construction industry...
Deaths in traffic conditions [CHINA...
Quite a turnaround for an airline that lost nearly $1 billion in 1993--the same year marauding workers shocked the travel world by occupying runways and halting traffic at both Paris airports to protest proposed cost cutting. Still bleeding cash the following year, Air France needed a $3.9 billion injection from the government to stay afloat. And despite a considerable restructuring and divestment plan put into place as part of that bailout, by 1998 the airline was back to its bad old tricks. A strike on the eve of the 1998 World Cup, to which France played host, cost...
...France's other good fortune is to have Paris as a hub. Charles de Gaulle Airport is one of the few in Europe that has the ability to expand traffic. This summer, for instance, it is increasing capacity 5.4%, even adding a Seattle-Paris nonstop flight. Analyst Derocles says C.D.G., the main airport serving Paris, has increased traffic 18%--or by 9 million passengers--since 2004. "London and Frankfurt don't have that advantage," he says, "and it has let Air France--KLM develop sales by 7% to 8% per year...