The city is ranked third nationally in the number of Fortune 500 companies, behind New York City and Houston, and is home to four Fortune 100 companies: Home Depot, United Parcel Service, Delta Airlines, and the Coca Cola Company.

Atlanta is home to CNN and is a leader in cable television programming, it’s the nation’s Center for Disease Control and a major information technology hub.

The Eastern Continental Divide runs through the center of the city and rainfall on one side of a street may flow to the Atlantic while that on the other side to the Gulf of Mexico.

Rental car companies have come to rely on a technology called telematics – which combines satellite-based Global Positioning System tracking, wireless communications and vehicle monitoring systems – to keep tabs on their rental units.

About a quarter of U.S. rental cars are equipped with this tracking technology, analysts estimate. The industry views telematics as a way to enforce its contracts, but some customers regard it, at best, as a means to make more money and, at worst, as an invasion of privacy.

The $259.51 bill you had expected ballooned to $3,405.05 – most of it a result of a $1-a-mile fee for each of the 2,874 miles driven. It turned out that by crossing the Georgia state line, you had violated the contract.

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