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Inside, people of middle age drifting haggardly into dotage huddle around video kiosks with racing results beamed in from horse- and greyhound-tracks worldwide (or cable—one patron watched a Sandra Bullock movie). The tiled floor was littered with discarded ticket stubs, and the multi-story gambling lounge smelled like old cigarettes and old people...
...Nothing personal, dear reader, but Cannes is not a democratic festival like Toronto, where every film is open to the public. You literally can't buy a ticket, though you might be given one, if you implore the desk clerk at your hotel, or perform some congenial act on an assistant producer. Cannes is a convention for movie professionals. Besides the movies chosen by programmers and critics, there's a free-for-all Film Market where anyone can rent a screening room and peddle his product to distributors and reviewers. Some are here to buy, some to sell; others, like...
...India has seen the launch of a wave of new airlines in recent years. Kingfisher has set impressive service standards, but the biggest social impact has been made by three low-cost carriers: Air Deccan, SpiceJet and GoAir. A ticket on one of these is often cheaper than a good seat on a train?something that has made flying, once the preserve of the rich, an affordable reality, even for lower-middle-class Indians. Their discovery of air travel puts India's aviation sector among the world's fastest growing. The fledgling budget airlines still contend with a few teething...
...years, the young have always left the Highlands," he says. "Mine is the first generation who are seriously thinking of going back. We don't want to go home and work in a shop and survive, we want to go home and be successful." Not that land is a ticket to wealth. "Most of these estates only existed because they had money coming in from outside," says Robert Balfour, chairman of the Association of Deer Management Groups. Derek Louden, the rural development manager hired to come up with an economic strategy for Assynt's land, believes this can change...
...airlines are in a precarious spot. They may have to pass on the cost of jet fuel--up more than 20%--to ticket holders, which could depress air travel. Northwest, for one, warned that higher fuel prices could tip it into bankruptcy...