Word: barcelona
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...reckons 16 million?or nearly a third?of all its supporters live in Asia. So, in 2000, the club opened its first Asian store, in Singapore, hawking everything from player figurines to cell-phone straps. Crosstown rivals Man City now have shops in China, while European clubs AC Milan, Barcelona and Juventus have each opened boutiques in Tokyo...
...Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying 13-year-old in Barcelona, has appeared on Sprite cans. "Sports is an industry now," says Guo, declining like a seasoned pro to discuss the details of her endorsement contracts. "It's another example of how economic reforms have changed China...
Pang says the new requirement has marred his experience even after making it to the United States by a narrow margin. He encountered the system immediately after stepping off the plane when he returned from a trip to Barcelona he took this past spring—his first foray out of the country since he barely made...
...cold, familiar and otherworldly: fried rabbit ears, for instance, translucently thin and tasting like pork rinds; spaghetti not topped with Parmesan but fashioned from it; carrots turned into foam, artichokes into puree, and foie gras into ice cream. For such alchemy, Adria maintains a "laboratory workshop" in nearby Barcelona, where he experiments with everything from centrifuges to cotton-candy machines. Adria sees Spain's pioneering departure from the norms set by French cuisine as only natural. "It is objectively true that Spain discovered America and brought about a change in cuisine," he says. "During the Golden Age, we taught Europe...
...proud to be a Spaniard. We have proved that we cannot easily be lied to, despite all of Aznar's manipulative efforts. Luis Crespo Barcelona...