Mr. PATRICK MOSCARITOLO (President and CEO, Greater Boston and Visitors and Convention Bureau): Interestingly enough for a destination that views its primary selling message as culture, arts, universities, history, what we're finding is almost a third of our overseas visitors are coming here, specifically, to shop.

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The sending of a fax message provides a useful analogy: before a fax reaches its destination there is maximum uncertainty, which decreases with the arrival of each legible letter.

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They then spread the message that going to Japan was not dangerous, and as appealing a destination as ever.

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"Each server does not know the source or final destination of the content, " Hill said, comparing it to a spy that delivers a secret message to a clandestine location, but who has no idea where the message ends up.

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