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...WORLD CONCERT $42 Amount that thirsty audience members forked over for a beer at the Live Earth concert in Sydney on July 7, where enterprising scalpers capitalized on record lines 10 million Estimated number of people around the world who watched the Live Earth concert online. TV trackers are still crunching numbers, but the total won't come close to the 2-billion mark that organizers were shooting...
...barely out of adolescence, but they are already among the largest in the world. According to a forecast this month from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), a global consulting firm, Chinese companies will raise $52 billion this year through initial public stock offerings in Shanghai and Shenzhen, more than double the amount forecast at the start of the year. Remarkably, this makes it likely China will generate more IPO money in 2007 than any other major market in the world did in 2006. This year, says Richard Sun, a partner at PWC, only London is on a pace to outstrip the Chinese markets...
...math is compelling: it costs a lot of money to acquire a customer and relatively little to keep them if they get mad - some free minutes or a couple of bucks off the bill will usually do the trick. The companies know that there's a a certain amount of inertia that keeps us from moving, even if the service is lousy. (Think about the last time you switched banks...
...awful lot happened, and some of it was unexpected, and some of it you were paddling away madly under the water and some of it you were serene and strategic and doing what you set out to do, but actually - this was a period of history when a huge amount got done...
...comparison of the weekly fare of five families around the world is striking. The American family is the only one that eats practically no fresh produce. The picture of a tiny bowl of grapes, two tomatoes and a few onions represents the amount of fruits and vegetables that the average four-person U.S. family eats in an entire week. Fresh bread and fish are also absent. With the exception of meat, most foods are processed. Counting Ragú sauce as a serving of vegetables is just a gimmick. It's no wonder that American diet books recommend reading food labels...