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As fossil collecting becomes the next big thing for China's nouveaux riches and even Hollywood leading men - Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage reportedly recently got into a bidding war over the remains of a $276,000 Asian T-rex - the paleontological paradise of Chaoyang is under threat. Farmers and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fossils Fuel a Chinese Boom | 8/27/2007 | See Source »

Money, then, rather than politics, seems the driving force behind TVE's shift. The Zapatero government has, in the past few years, loosened the state's grasp on the airwaves, establishing for the first time an independent committee to run the national station and opening the dial to new, private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanish TV Says No to Bullfighting | 8/22/2007 | See Source »

Those bells are louder after Chavez recently revoked the license of an opposition television network, RCTV. The problem wasn't that RCTV was pulled off the air - it loudly encouraged a coup attempt against Chavez in 2002, something the FCC probably wouldn't condone in the U.S. - but that Chavez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez's Push for Permanence | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

Some actors slipped the confines. Delon, who at this early stage in his career often exuded a feline passivity, is a live wire in Eclipse, where he plays a stock market trader who catches the attention of Vittoria (Vitti), who has just broken up with her rich boyfriend. During the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies | 8/5/2007 | See Source »

Fueling the competition further are disgruntled mainstream investment funds, which have been egging on PE firms to deal jump. Some have become quite vocal and even threatened to vote their shares against a deal unless a bidder kicked in more money. One such firm is Cohen & Steers Inc., a nonactivist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: A Private-Equity Peak? | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

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