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...love a good story, and licensed merchandise connected with that story is big business. Last year more than 36% of sales in Britain's $2.5 billion toy market were of licensed toy characters, up 4% from 1999. HIT Entertainment, the U.K. company that created the preschool favorite Bob the Builder, estimates that the four-digited animated handyman has generated $140 million in British retail sales of related toys and other merchandise since his launch in 1999. "It's a matter of the right image at the right time," says Mike Broadfield, Just Group's head of consumer products...
...Nation builder, visionary, Uber-industrialist, human bulldozer: Hyundai founder CHUNG JU YUNG wore all these hats and more. When the son of a peasant from a North Korean village died last week at the age of 85, South Korea lost one of its 20th-century giants. If Korea's leap from war-battered basket case to industrial powerhouse was miraculous, Chung was chief miracle maker. He started out selling rice as a runaway teenager, set up his own construction company, then piled into everything from supertankers to microchips. His energy and drive were Olympian, his chutzpah legendary: he once sold...
...Winners ELVIS PRESLEY He left the building?but not the bank. The King tops Forbes' list of the richest dead celebrities OLIVER STONE U.S. judge rejects suit blaming director's film for killings. Now sue him for Any Given Sunday BOB THE BUILDER Animated British construction worker takes U.S. TV by storm. Payback...
...chance to do something different," he says. "It's a way to get a book under your belt before you leave school. That's a big confidence builder...
Architectural tradition, master builder I.M. Pei once said, is a living force that animates the present. For the Shanghai relatives of the man who created the Louvre's pyramids and Hong Kong's sleek Bank of China building, that tradition is rooted at 25 Huangpi South Road, where five generations of the Pei family have made their home since 1911. During his student years in that rollicking city, the budding architect visited the graceful three-story mansion often and drew inspiration from its French colonial touches and lush gardens. "This house holds my family's soul," says Pei's cousin...