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...After much delay, Suvarnabhumi International Airport will go into operation this summer as a long-overdue replacement for the aging Don Muang airport. The new facility's express train will reduce journey times to the center of Bangkok to 15 minutes, but the biggest winner may be Pattaya, which is less than an hour away from Suvarnabhumi, compared to over two hours from Don Muang...
CHARGED. JAMAL ZOUGAM, 32, along with five other conspirators, with the murder of 191 people in the Madrid train bombings of March 2004; in Madrid. The Moroccan-born merchant is alleged to have supplied the mobile phones used to detonate backpack bombs on four commuter trains in the Spanish capital. Zougam, who denies any involvement in the attacks, was also identified by four witnesses as having traveled on some of the trains shortly before the bomb blasts. Twenty-three other suspects have been charged with a range of crimes, from collaboration to handling explosives...
Corporations are running into similar problems. They want to ride the viral train for the free publicity, but it doesn't always go where they want it to. In March Chevrolet organized an online make-your-own-commercial campaign for its Tahoe SUV. Green-minded humorists hijacked the campaign, creating widely circulated Tahoe ads with slogans like, "Nature? It'll grow back. Drive a car that costs the earth." Last year, Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, a London-based creative ad development team, came up with an "edgy" Volkswagen spot for a demo reel: a terrorist tries to detonate...
...enough. China's hot dragon breath vaporized 20,000 low-skilled jobs in recent years--about 10% of the total in the free-trade zone, necessitating a move up-market. Good telecommunications could make the country suitable for outsourcing, including call centers, but the D.R. is just beginning to train the legions of computer-savvy English speakers it needs to make a dent in swelling youth unemployment. Only 10% of students finish high school...
Melanie Marsh knows something is wrong with her son Daniel. He won't let go of his Thomas the Tank Engine train. He walks on his toes and collects objects, especially anything disk shaped. And he isn't talking. When the diagnosis comes--Daniel is autistic--Melanie's very proper English husband Stephen walks out, leaving her to feel her way forward with only a mysterious child and an army of (mostly) unhelpful doctors to guide her. This is a tearful, joyful novel, and Leimbach (Dying Young) comes by tears and joy honestly: she has an autistic...