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...course, the world's telecom-investment climate is considerably more frigid than it was just a few years ago. In 2000, when wireless mania was at its apex, everyone thought consumers were dying for high-speed networks and mobile phones that could stream video calls, download movie clips and access online game networks. Caught up in the high-tech hype, mobile carriers rushed into the future, spending a now seemingly absurd $89.5 billion on 3G licenses in Europe alone...
...1960s, at the apex of his career, Greenstein was a member of an advisory body that helped form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
During the 1930s, Shanghai - a.k.a. the Paris of the Orient - was both swank apex and sin sinkhole. At the Great World entertainment complex, the vices became more outlandish as you climbed up six floors, past acrobats, dwarves, singsong girls and stripteasers. This was the city immortalized in the movie Shanghai Express when Marlene Dietrich purred: "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily." But after 1949, the communists brought their monochromatic palette to China and Shanghai was straitjacketed as punishment for its formerly outr? ways. Only now, after years of repression, has Shanghai finally erupted...
...city of 450,000, built at the apex of a deep harbor, creeps up the precipitous mountainsides. Its atmosphere reflects a myriad of influences. Chinese temples share streets with grocery markets. The aroma of fresh-baked Portuguese castella cakes wafts out of bakeries standing amid sake bars decorated with red lanterns. Victorian-style European buildings have been preserved at Glover Gardens, a well-tended hilltop refuge named for Scotsman Thomas Glover who made his fortune in shipbuilding in Japan in the late 1800s. According to local lore, Glover's home inspired the setting for Puccini's Madame Butterfly...
...little more than three years, Ji, 50, and Hsu, 41, founders of Apex Digital in Ontario, Calif., have sold enough cheap DVD players in North America to steal a 14% share of that market. The firm has machines assembled for a pittance in China and sells them in the U.S. at such bargain stores as Wal-Mart. Now Apex is targeting TVs. It will have 18 models out by June. Not bad for a pair who began by peddling scrap metal to China...