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Most of the corporations located in Zug engage in extensive trade and currency transactions in the commodities, financial and pharmaceutical sectors. Many are subsidiaries of firms headquartered elsewhere, including such big U.S. names as Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kellogg and PerkinElmer. These firms, and others from around the world, have no trouble getting executives to transfer to Zug, or to visit. The town offers both "tax advantages and a great quality of life," says Andreas Emmenegger, CFO of Fantastic, a software company with offices in Framingham, Mass., New York City, San Francisco, Atlanta and Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Class: Low Tax, High Life | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...There's no telling how becoming a public face would affect the artist, whose legend has been burnished by his invisibility. Little is known for certain about Banksy, whose name is reputed to be Robert Banks or Robin Banks. Banksy started painting graffiti in his hometown of Bristol, England, in the 1990s. Since then, his trademark stenciled murals and free-form creations have adorned walls and invaded public spaces across Europe and from San Francisco to Sydney. (Watch TIME's video "Graffiti Meets the Digital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banksy Unmasked? A Graffiti Mystery | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

When John is stuck in the broiling heat of extended spring training in Arizona, the boredom is palpable. And when he is cut from the roster of the Rookie-level Bristol Sox in June, the hurt is real: “I was frozen. Frozen with all of the emotions [that] were racing through my mind, body, and soul...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Basepaths to Bookshelves | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

Church was John’s teammate on the independent league Kalamazoo Kings, where he played the latter half of 2006 after being cut from the Bristol Sox. Between the Sox and the Kings, he enjoyed a brief stint with the North Shore Spirit of the independent Can-Am League...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Basepaths to Bookshelves | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

Stoppard's passion for rock music dates from his days in Bristol, where he would see most of the touring music acts that came to town--among them Frank Sinatra (who played the Bristol Hippodrome in the early '50s and didn't sell out), the Everly Brothers and Eddie Cochran, the rockabilly singer whose British tour ended when he was killed in a car crash in 1960. Like everyone else, Stoppard embraced the Beatles and Rolling Stones when they came along, but he admits to being a late bloomer when it came to Pink Floyd. "I ignored them completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elitist, Moi? | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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