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...Internet has already made many other financial transactions cheaper and simpler. Stockbrokers once routinely charged $250 for trades that can now be done for $15 on the Web. People who buy a car or truck online pay an average of 2% less than those who walk into a dealership, studies show. Travel deals are so prevalent online that hotel owners normally offer lowest-rate guarantees, which drive down the average price of a room. Yet for the most part, the real estate industry has managed to shield itself. "The way real estate is sold hasn't changed since Eisenhower...
...foolish not only because it doesn't work, but because it tells the world that Filipinos are morons." CHRYSTALYNE GALAPON, Filipino store clerk, on Manila's plan to stop jaywalking by having a truck-mounted 2-m-by-3-m "wet flag" driven along the city's streets, soaking pedestrians who stray off the curb
...Kaelberer said. He had heard about the DNA sweep, and he didn't like it. He had lived in Truro for 33 years precisely because this kind of nonsense didn't happen here. Still, he had decided to surrender. "What are you going to do? You got a truck full of garbage," he says. "This is a small town. It's not worth getting on a list if you're not guilty...
...that is the happy part of the movie. Things get darker as a real dirty truck bomb goes off in the city's center. There is far more devastation than the drill projected. The response is chaotic: workers are trapped in burning offices as rescue crews retreat from the radioactive zone. Panic ensues, and the heroism and derring-do that follow only remind us that the real time for lifesaving action ended long before...
...disease could kill as many as the tsunami did, a number now reaching upwards of 150,000? How do thousands of rescuers, from hundreds of agencies, from dozens of countries, speaking different languages, coordinate their efforts so that relief workers in need of antibiotics don't find that the truck they are unloading carries only biscuits and blankets? How do they resettle a port town when residents look at the ocean and see a grave, refuse to eat fish for fear it has fed on the lost? How do they calculate human nature in countries where government soldiers fight with...