Sick of crawling to work through endless traffic or relying on slow mass transit?

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Mass tourism has been slow to discover Bulgaria's rugged north coast, home to few beaches but a long stretch of triumphant limestone cliffs popular with Bulgarian rock-climbers who leap into the crashing waves below.

BBC: The Black Sea by Moskvitch

When mechanical engineer James Parks joined Nektar in 1994, employees at the company were hand-filling blister packs with an early version of insulin powder at a rate of 100 per person per day, too slow for mass production.

FORBES: Innovation

The road to mass university education in Scotland has been long and slow.

BBC: The golden age that never was

In practice they were slow to adjust and the results were bankruptcies and mass unemployment.

ECONOMIST: Central banks and the bullion price

But for now, 4G handset costs are still too high for mass adoption, and the 2G bridge devices in use today deliver painfully slow speeds and oftentimes dissatisfied customers.

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The benefits of grounding planes to halt disease were unclear, but "flight limitations might slow the spread of pandemic influenza by several weeks, thereby providing time for mass vaccination of the population and contingency plan setup, " the researchers wrote.

BBC: In-flight health issues 'on rise'