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There is another way. In December, Sir Rod Eddington, former head of British Airways, completed a study on transport for the U.K. He evaluated all kinds of projects--from fancy high-speed trains to simple bike paths--and calculated the return on investment per pound spent. What he found was surprising. "Small can be beautiful," his report concluded. Large projects like new rail lines tended to be less beneficial for the money than modest ones, like widening an old road. The British government is now funding more projects on the basis of this more rational notion of overall value...
...High-Speed Internet for Africa...
...event that's now exactly a year away - the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics. China has reason to get the party started a little early: As could be expected of the world's largest authoritarian state, infrastructure preparations for the Games have been pushed through with remarkable speed. But that doesn't mean that China is quite ready to welcome the world. Beijing's air is still terrible, and the government is ill-prepared for the growing attention of the world's media. Here's a look at where China is ready for the Games, and where...
...doesn’t want to be overconfident about the effect this proposal could have on the activities of the Institute—which has to date created more stem cell lines than any other facility in the world—he said that he hopes it will speed up the process of getting cutting-edge research to the people who can most benefit from...
According to Prof. Katherine Anthony, a restroom expert at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the U.S. has a history of toilet-based discrimination. She says this country's lack of potty parity - equal speed of access to public restrooms - reinforces an unspoken social hierarchy. Men spend an average 30 seconds using the toilet, and women take an average of 90 seconds; most of us are intimately familiar with the waiting lines that form outside women's restrooms...