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...tourist dollars flowing again, the government initiated a nearly $200 million recovery scheme. Dubbed the Relaunch Hong Kong promotion, the three-month-old campaign has already wooed Chinese basketball titan Yao Ming, soccer superstar David Beckham and their respective teams. The campaign has collaborated with airlines and hotels to offer special discounts. United Airlines, which has just announced a resumption of its regular flight schedule, is offering a five-day air-and-hotel package from the U.S. starting at $499. Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines have a joint six-night, eight-day Hong Kong and Lion City package...
Rarely has a book been preceded by as much fevered speculation and murderous ill will as Martin Amis' Yellow Dog (Jonathan Cape; 288 pages). It's out this week in the U.K. and already getting more ink than David Beckham on a slow news day. That's because Amis, 54, is one of Britain's best-known serious novelists - and thus one of the biggest targets in the literary field - and Yellow Dog is his first big novel since The Information, eight years ago. Beginning with The Rachel Papers in 1974, Amis' cold eye, slashing wit and verbal ferocity made...
...final at Wimbledon; Lina Krasnoroutskaya, 19, who beat Kim Clijsters in August at the Rogers AT&T Cup in Toronto; and Maria Sharapova, 16, who hasn't won yet but may become the best of the bunch. Impoverished Russian kids copy these heroes the way teenagers elsewhere emulate David Beckham or Shaquille O'Neill, as TV and newspaper coverage bring the triumphant, affluent and socially important new stars into virtually every Russian home. Though 40% of the Russian population "cannot afford toothpaste," according to the Moscow daily Izvestia, everyone seems to be playing or watching tennis. They read that Kournikova...
Hollywood, having served teenage boys with decades' worth of action movies, is now making something of a play for their sisters. It has been, sort of, the summer of the girls, with pictures ranging from Bend It Like Beckham (Indian girl in London satisfies her dream of soccer stardom) to Whale Rider (Maori girl becomes the spiritual leader of her tribe) to I Capture the Castle (British teen comes to grips with her emerging sexuality). All these movies have hung on for weeks in theaters, attracting not just young girls but their parents...
...Real Madrid made headlines by recruiting David Beckham but was still outspent by rival Barcelona. Here are four top football shoppers and what they got for their money...