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...spend is sliding, total ad revenues for newspapers are growing. According to Nielsen Media Research, advertising spending in Britain's Metro climbed 9.2% in 2004, compared to 3.9% across the U.K.'s daily newspaper market. So what's the attraction? With the ubiquity of freesheets in or around transport links, firms are able to combine ads in a commuter's free paper with promotions elsewhere within a public transport network, says Richard Chataway of the Media Planning Group, a London media agency whose clients are regularly publicized inside Associated's Metro. He says advertisers want the commuting audience, and, besides...
...last haven of ring tone-free peace is gone. The Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) has announced that it will install a wireless communication network inside the tunnels of the MBTAs subway system. According to the MBTAs press release, [T]he project, to be introduced in phases, begins at the subway platforms at Park Street, Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and State Street, and includes the tunnels connecting those stations. Once the wires are in place, a transportation system that made the world a little smaller will be made a lot louder. While Amtrak trains have solved this problem by designating...
...just the income from the individual’s earnings that is lost. The income from all the people who die of treatable ailments or whose efficiency is reduced by poor healthcare is lost as well. Similarly, an engineer would have built a bridge that improved transport and would have had a multiplying effect in increasing efficiency in the economy. Brain drain is thus not about national prestige; it is a real hindrance to growth in the developing world. For all the hype about halving poverty in the developing world, little will be done without a competent, sizeable workforce...
...requested proposals for antibomb technology, BAE asked for and got permission from the British government to offer a classified product. The trust goes both ways: the Pentagon had no complaint when BAE announced last month that it was buying United Defense Industries, which makes the U.S. Army's critical transport, the Bradley fighting vehicle...
...favorites is Ero Tourism," says Henry. "My wife and I travel separately to the same foreign city by different modes of transport, and then try to find each other. We have done it and met six times. The moment we meet is always fantastic...