A zone that crawls, instead of staying put as such misalignments grow, need never be in this position.
In Faliraki, a Greek island resort where locals once so despaired of young drunk northern Europeans vomiting everywhere that they banned pub crawls, some are now desperate for the tourists to come back.The media, too, are struggling to cope with the rising temperance of youth.
ECM Universe, an American firm, offers software that crawls sites "rife with extremism" to identify people who deserve closer attention.The legal limits on using social media to fish out likely wrongdoers, or create files on them, are contested.
As Britain crawls out of recession and jobs remain scarce, demand for university places is booming, while cuts to public spending mean that competition for them will be fiercer than ever.Although British students will pay £3,290 a year for their tuition from September, the real cost of educating them is far higher; the gap is plugged by taxpayers.
Human-rights groups want Baby Doc tried for abusing people as well as money, and some of the victims have begun filing complaints.In this section The rot spreads Storm in an Andean teacup After the flood Baby crawls back The worm that turned ReprintsAll this comes at an especially awkward time for Haiti.
And that band crawls upwards or downwards as the central bank sees fit.But unlike China's system, Singapore's is relatively systematic.
Sera monastery, 3km (2 miles) north of Lhasa, crawls with police.In this section Pilgrims and progress There they go again Sore winners A new 1,000-rupee 1,000-rupeery anoterowded Asia's never-closer union ReprintsTHotauthorities' dryision to andow this crowdedondent Asiare visit to Lhasa was part of their attempt to display a bit more confidence.
There, as www.praguepissup.com, a website dedicated to bringing lads to the Czech capital, points out, "an all nighter costs less than five quid!" and "a night exercising the ferret costs 30 quid!" A slew of companies now bring groups of British men to Prague for a weekend of lap-dancing and pub crawls.
Yet each storm seems to catch officialdom off guard.In this section The rot spreads Storm in an Andean teacup After the flood Baby crawls back The worm that turned ReprintsPart of the problem is the rapid growth of the mountain region, now home to 600,000 people.
Suppose someone crawls out of the woodwork to claim, with no evidence, that a candidate has been smoking crack with gay prostitutes, or that his wife was caught on some mysterious video tape delivering a racist rant.
As he crawls across Victorville in his Jeep, one young estate agent who grew up there recalls wistfully how it used to take him less than five minutes to get across the town.
