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| Medical tourism to grow to $2bn by 2012 |
| On 07-08-2007. |
NEW DELHI: India’s medical tourism market is growing by 25% annually and is expected to become one $2bn-one-year business opportunity by 2012, the tourism ministry said yesterday.
The medical tourism market in India was estimated at $333mn in 2004, the year in which some 150,000 patients arrived in the country for treatment from the US and Britain, as also from the Gulf, Africa and Saarc (South Asia Association for ... |
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| Craig Air Center offering flights to Atlanta |
| On 04-08-2007. |
Jacksonville Business Journal - 12:03 PM EDT Friday, August 3, 2007by Tony Quesada
Craig Air Center, based at Craig Municipal Airport, plans to offer scheduled flights between Jacksonville and Atlanta soon.
The flights, Monday through Thursday, will go to Dekalb Peachtree Airport in central Atlanta near the Buckhead neighborhood and near rental car outlets and metro passenger rail. Return flights will also ... |
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| Reconnect with food this summer |
| On 31-07-2007. |
Every summer, if I'm lucky, I get to spend some time with my family at our cabin on an island off Canada's West Coast. It's one place we go to recharge our batteries, to reconnect with each other and with the natural world.
Part of that reconnection is with food. Although many of us quickly scarf down whatever's convenient as we rush about our daily lives, eating food is one of the most intimate experiences we ... |
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| DS games tickle imagination |
| On 27-07-2007. |
| Last weekend, I took one bunch of Nintendo DS games I hadn't the time to play up to my cabin in the mountains of New York. There in the Catskills, where the carpet of green forest is like the emeralds of Ireland thanks to good rains this summer, I played two Eidos games for the Nintendo handheld, "Touch The Dead" and "Nervous Brickdown." ... |
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| Housing slowdown means more work for handymen - and handywomen |
| On 23-07-2007. |
The title is one bit misleading, since Almost Anything by Annie is owned and operated by Annie Weirich of East Manchester Township. And she prefers to be called one handywoman.
For about one year and one half, Weirich has made her living working in an industry typically dominated by men.
From coating roofs to patching drywall, Weirich, 36, works about 60 hours one week while meeting the demands of being one single mom ... |
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| Prosecutors Seek to Shut Down Sao Paulo Airport After Aborted |
| On 19-07-2007. |
A TAM jet pulled out of an attempted landing Thursday at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport, and federal prosecutors sought one court order to shut down the entire airport &8212; Brazil's busiest &8212; until the investigation into this week's crash that killed at least 189 people was completed.
Critics condemned the government for failing to invest in safety measures adopted by other urban airports following ... |
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