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...necessarily in oil. Rogers says he isn't buying oil right now. But he is watching certain regional economies very closely. "A lot of places in the U.S. are going to boom," he says, because they are rich in oil or other natural resources. As a result, he adds, "retailers in Texas are going to do a lot better than retailers in Massachusetts...
...genuinely attracted by the area's claim to be the location of James Hilton's classic 1930s novel Lost Horizons, or whether they come (as they always have done) for the spectacular mountain scenery and ethnic Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects-from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors who make it to this once fabled and remote part of Yunnan province want when they get there? To a new generation of local and expatriate entrepreneurs, the answer is drink...
Legendary skateboard champ Tony Hawk helped turn a California street sport into a global phenomenon. Now 36, Hawk is also a successful businessman, having built an action-sports empire that encompasses best-selling video games, DVDS, equipment, apparel and an arena tour called Boom Boom HuckJam. Hawk spoke with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner from the Cayman Islands, where he performed at the opening of Black Pearl, the world's largest concrete skate park...
...YOUR BOOM BOOM HUCKJAM ARENA TOUR STARTS IN JUNE. IS IT NASCAR FOR TWEENS? I'd liken it less to NASCAR or a Monster Truck show and more to Cirque du Soleil. It has a lot of choreography, and it's visually exciting--it's showcasing our sport as entertainment, not competition. And it's not just for the younger generation--it's one of the few events that dads and sons can equally enjoy...
Bird and Sherwin are concerned chiefly with the political and personal dimensions of Oppenheimer's case. For a broader picture of Los Alamos as a unique human settlement, part Western boom town, part scientific prison camp, turn to 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant. The Los Alamos in her book is largely the one General Leslie Groves, military chief of the Manhattan Project, was describing when he directed Oppenheimer, saying: "Here at great expense the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. Take good care of them." Conant sees the place partly through the eyes of Dorothy...