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...TRANSPORT...
...Thai army has at times responded harshly to the insurgency and is accused of being behind numerous extrajudicial disappearances. In the Tak Bai incident of 2004, 87 detainees died while under army transport - most suffocated after being crammed into the backs of trucks. At the same time, insurgents have burned down more than 200 schools and almost 100 Thai teachers, symbols of central authority, have died. On Nov. 5, two car bombs injured over...
...From the port of Mytilene, you can see the lights of the Turkish coastal town of Dikili twinkling on the horizon. Further north, where the strait between the two countries narrows to just three miles, traffickers zip immigrants across by Jet Ski. But the usual form of transport is a humble dinghy or decrepit motorboat crammed past capacity, and destined to be abandoned after the crossing - if the boat and its passengers make it. In October, in separate incidents, Greek and Turkish authorities recovered 18 bodies; the E.U. estimates that 3,000 or more people die annually attempting to slip...
Some critics of Ikea say that your furniture is easy to break, hard to assemble, and heavy to transport. What's your response to that? The quality is improving. Assembly may be difficult for some people, but we're trying to make it as easy as possible. Our philosophy is that people have more time than money. If you have to trade off between paying more or having someone else do the assembly, many people would make that trade...
...less material in our products. I would foresee that in the not-too-far future solid wood products won't exist in our product categories. Resources are limited, so we use techniques where the wood is in the frame, but basically empty inside. That makes it less heavy to transport, and dramatically reduces the amount of material...