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...rent Yotel rooms for as little as $49 for a four-hour stay. That will be possible because he plans to roll out Yotels at airports (a Heathrow Yotel is slated to open this summer) and other travel hubs such as train and subway stations, where guests in transit may require rooms only for a shower and a nap. Like restaurants that turn over tables many times an evening, "We think we can let the rooms 21/2 times a day," Woodroffe says - that's a target occupancy rate...
Remember the Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore global-warming pitch at the Academy Awards? Before they spoke, the screen at the back of the stage flashed not-so-subliminal messages about how to save the planet. My personal favorite was "Ride mass transit." This to a conclave of Hollywood plutocrats who have not seen the inside of a subway since the moon landing and for whom mass transit means a stretch limo seating no fewer than...
...Boym, it’s inspiration. Boym, the Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, showcases her artwork for the first time at Harvard this month. In her experimental multi-media exhibit “Nostalgic Technologies,” on display in the Transit Gallery of CGIS South until April 10, Boym manipulates technology to reevaluate photographs from her travels throughout Europe and America. Boym’s journey into what she calls “broken-tech art” began when she was printing photographs and her printer began...
...drugs. Just last fall the Bush Administration nominated Guatemala to take the Latin American seat on the U.N. Security Council as a means of shutting out Venezuela. The U.S. government says the seven-country region, a land bridge between South America and Mexico, has become a major transit route for over 75% of cocaine moving from Colombia up through Mexico and into the U.S. The fallout from the ongoing investigations, now being conducted with the help of U.S. FBI agents, will surely cast a shadow over the visit later this month of President Bush to Guatemala, his second-to-last...
...German government said its supplies were secure but that Berlin was watching the developments "with concern" and appealed to Russian and Belarussian authorities to "fulfill their obligations of delivery and transit." Germany depends on the pipeline for one-fifth of its oil imports. Poland receives 50% of its oil from Russia and most of it comes through the pipeline. Warsaw, however, says it has enough oil for 80 days and, if needed, can receive shipments through Baltic ports. Polish newspapers have started calling the controversy "The Russia-Belarus...