Home-grown tourism
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- Home-grown tourism
- Britons’ hate creates terrorists, Muslims say
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- The skinny on obesity in Colorado
- ‘Loretta’s’ New Orleans pralines back in business
- University expansion Psst…fancy a laptop with your degree?
Home-grown tourism
Bay News 9 – Aug 31, 2006
“The high cost of gasoline this year has really pulled travel back a little bit and a lot of people are looking for places close to home. “Statewide tourism this year is also keeping pace with the record 2005 year. So far, 56 million visitors have come to Florida, close to the same number that had visited this time last year. Despite active hurricane seasons, tourism numbers have broken records the last two years. However, hotel occupancy is down almost 3 percent this year statewide… “Statewide tourism this year is also keeping pace with the record 2005 year. So far, 56 million visitors have come to Florida, close to the same number that had visited this time last year. Despite active hurricane seasons, tourism numbers have broken records the last two years. However, hotel occupancy is down almost 3 percent this year statewide. Citrus County Tourism Development said most of the money it receives through the tourist tax goes back into advertising. A larger budget will be used for strictly Florida campaigns. More Citrus County Stories.
Britons’ hate creates terrorists, Muslims say
St. Petersburg Times – Aug 30, 2006
Richard Reid, the infamous "shoe bomber," is serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a Paris-Miami flight in late 2001. And in July 2005, four suicide bombers killed dozens of London subway and bus passengers. The growth of home-grown terrorism has caused profound angst in Britain. It also raises questions about why Muslims in this country – which prides itself on ethnic and religious tolerance – seem to be angrier and more alienated than Muslims in the United States or other European nations. Even before the alleged airliner plot was revealed Aug. 10, a survey found substantial alarm about Islamic extremism in Britain, not only among the full population but among Muslims themselves. According to the Pew Research Center, 43 percent of British Muslims were "very concerned" about the increase in radicalism among fellow Muslims.
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The skinny on obesity in Colorado
Rocky Mountain News – Aug 30, 2006
One reason for the crown, no doubt, is Colorado’s plentiful sunshineand plethora of outdoor activities. But another factor is Coloradans’ desire for low-fat, home-grown,fresh foods, said personal chef Rachel Giannotti, who lived in Bostonand Minnesota before opening her Denver business, Always Haute. The farmer’s market in Boston’s Harvard Square is tiny compared withthose that blanket the Denver area, she said. “I think people are more aware of where their food is coming fromthan in other states,” Giannotti said. However, even health-conscious Coloradans are seeing the poundscreep on – a trend that worries those who watch the nation’swaistline. In 2005, Colorado recorded an obesity rate of 17.
‘Loretta’s’ New Orleans pralines back in business
Christian Science Monitor – Aug 30, 2006
“In some cases, we were all some people needed, a grant and advice. Idea Village is an example of how quickly the private sector can react to an emergency. And with its stable of MBAs and home-grown entrepreneurs, it can provide strategy as well as money. “They are attempting to identify those businesses with a chance to break through and create significant jobs if they have the tools and the access to capital,” says John Elstrott, a professor of entrepreneurship at Tulane University. In the weeks after Katrina, the odds of survival for a small business were slim. Almost every business in Orleans Parish – some 18,000 – was closed for six weeks. More than half have not reopened.
University expansion Psst…fancy a laptop with your degree?
economist.com – Aug 31, 2006
The number of 18-year-olds in Britain will drop around 2010 and decline over the following ten years, according to government projections (see chart). Bahram Bekhradnia, the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, a think-tank, says the government hasn’t a hope of getting 50% of young Britons into higher education by 2010. And the decline of home-grown student numbers will have a “differential effect” on universities, he reckons. Those at the bottom end will have to become increasingly “innovative” about whom they admit and some may not survive. The Cambridge shades evoked by Rupert Brooke were gentle, nostalgic ones. Many vice-chancellors today are pursued by far more vengeful spectres of empty campuses, deserted laboratories, failed institutions. Markets, after all, create winners—and losers.