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Work has finally started on the central London levitron system. Replacing the crumbling Tube lines will be a robust and low-cost electromagnetically driven tranport system that will change the face of high-speed travel. Levitron, which relies on newly developed superconductive materials, will provide access points and public pods (lifts that travel in all directions) in the street and within office complexes. Initially levitron will operate in cities, but plans are being drawn up for a gobal system. CS As the world population grows - this year it reached 7.5 billion - so does the divide between rich and poor. The richest fifth of the world's population now controls 85% of the wealth. In 1965, it controlled 68%. About 1.5 billion of the planet's 7.5 billion are living in what is defined as absolute poverty - a 50% increase on the figure of 30 years ago. SC A system for tagging electronic goods that disables them when they are removed from their home environment is deterring burglars. Tagged goods are registered within a home grid and cannot be operated outside it. Consumer watchdogs have hailed the system, devised by the company Newhaven, as an advance in home security. SC