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...only the scientists who want answers. So do the carriers: 16 of them attended the WHO meeting. In February the International Air Transport Association advised all airlines to tell travelers of the risk of DVT when they make reservations. Airbus reports that buyers of its new 550-seat A-380 aircraft have expressed an interest in putting treadmills on board. And some airlines are already providing exercise information to passengers. JAL is showing a new nine-minute in-flight exercise video that refers to DVT. Emirates gives passengers the "Airogym," a sort of half inflated water wing, which they squash...
...across Asia, risk awareness is thin, and no pan-Asian transport body exists to call for precautionary measures, as the European Commission did in January. During the Haj season when tens of thousands go to Mecca, Pakistan International Airways routinely refits aircraft to shoehorn in as many seats as possible. In China, Li Ru, spokeswoman for Air China, puts her faith in passenger size. "We are shorter and smaller than Westerners, so we're less uncomfortable in airplane seats," she says. For those airlines that are taking action, the mood is aggressively defensive. Following the WHO conference, the Association...
...disappointing turnout at the polls for the British election was a reflection of the current British identity. We complain about the poor state of our hospitals, education and public transport, yet when the opportunity comes to take action, only 58% of the electorate bothers to vote, the lowest turnout in more than 80 years. Too many people want a quick fix to difficult problems without having to do the work to help solve them. Some people have forgotten that it was 20 years of short-term solutions that resulted in our current depressive state. As a nation, we need...
...soon deep into a virtual marshland. Ferries ply the many canals and waterways in a constant cycle of to and fro, back and forth. At the mouth of the Karnaphuli river lies Bangladesh's main port. The country's second city, Chittagong has been a center of trade and transport for 2,000 years. Porters lean almost prone as they haul carts piled 4 m high along the quay. Stroll the boulevards of decaying colonial storefronts and the pungent waterfront in the old city to trace the port's Portuguese and British history. For a bed, try the Hotel Agrabad...
...work. That unflattering image darkened further in the late 1980s and much of the 1990s when record unemployment and the city's large immigrant population made Marseilles the electoral power base of the far-right National Front. Today Marseilles is opening up, reinventing itself as an economic, transport and communications gateway...