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...looking for work. A few years ago, only boats carrying less than 100 tons of goods could navigate this stretch of the Mekong - hardly worth the trip. Now, ships can handle triple that amount - and when other reefs are removed in the coming months, they will be able to transport even more. The knock-on effects of the China trade are big, too. A giant casino opened last year to cater to the Chinese tourists pouring from Mekong ferries into northern Thailand, and Sichuan restaurants crowd the Chiang Saen riverside. At local institutes, Mandarin classes have become as popular...
...latest is Yellow Jersey, launched in May by big French Burgundy producer Boisset, which will be distributed only in dark-colored plastic bottles--a lot lighter than glass ones and therefore requiring less fossil fuel to transport. And Ontarians aren't the only ones ditching the glass bottle. A lot of this innovation comes from eco-forward Australians and New Zealanders, the same people who were early adopters of plastic corks and screw-top caps. More than half the wine in Australia is sold in boxes, although that country has yet to catch up to Chile, where more than...
...many wanderers, travel is about transport, and a journey through a world of wonders; for Paul Theroux, as for his model in these stories, Paul Bowles, travel can often be about dissolution, a slow and irresistible unraveling. In The Elephanta Suite, a set of brilliantly evocative and propulsive novellas, he shows us how India, with its furious intensities, its gift for confrontation and its quirky mix of dusty British terms ("jocundity") and the latest American ambitions, might be made for him and his ironic pen. He also reminds us that few travelers can pick up a place with such casual...
...that change is under way. While his predecessors kept union negotiations at arm's length, union leaders say, Walsh's direct involvement helped speed up a resolution. With Walsh and his union counterpart sequestered in a London hotel, says Brendan Gold, T&G's national secretary for civil air transport, "serious negotiations were done." Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. So, while an aircraft tug driver used to leave work before the end of his shift...
...Unions are vowing to fight Sarkozy's promise to pass legislation setting minimal levels of service in public transport and schools during strikes. The very threat of that measure has led labor leaders to propose staging potentially crippling walk-outs in September and October, when hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to converge on France as it hosts rugby's World Cup. Sarkozy must also figure out how to pass a viable budget for 2008 that takes into account nearly $15 billion in income tax cuts opponents say benefit the wealthy, and the limited revenues sluggish growth with produce...