Word: buzzes
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While some low-cost airlines are concentrating on more traditional destinations, Ryanair, Go and Buzz are boldly going where few have gone before. And their attentions are proving a boon, not just to holidaymakers who snap up bargain fares, but to places like Aarhus, Bergerac and Jerez, which are enjoying a boost to the local economy from an influx of tourists. As the summer vacation season reaches its peak at the conventional hotspots, the air over Europe is filling with people going to places that, until recently, they had never even heard...
...star that's causing all the buzz is 55 Cancri, about the size and age of our sun, located just 41 light-years away. This is not the first time a planet has been seen orbiting the star. In 1996 Geoffrey Marcy, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and astrophysicist Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington spotted a different Jupiter-size world circling 55 Cancri in a close-up orbit just 10 million miles from the solar fires--closer than little Mercury orbits our own sun. All told, astronomers have found about...
...widening corruption scandal swirling around President Kim Dae Jung and his Millenium Democratic Party (MDP) has boosted the buzz level. Last week, prosecutors arrested presidential son Kim Hong Up on charges of bribery and influence-peddling. He joins Kim Hong Gul, the President's youngest son, now under indictment for bribery. The scandal has deflated support for MDP presidential candidate Roh Moo Hyun, widely seen as President Kim's horse in the December poll (Kim is constitutionally barred from running again). Party members are also alarmed about the shellacking the MDP got in local elections in early June. The smart...
...October, Simon & Schuster will publish "Chronicles: Volume 1" by Bob Dylan. The publisher calls the autobiography "the most awaited book of 2002." Based on the buzz we heard at BEA, there might be some truth to that. Don't look for Bob at Barnes & Noble, though...
...duplicating the carefully mapped out release pattern it used for The Deep End last year. Like many indie films, The Good Girl will open first in New York City and Los Angeles. "When you don't have big TV-advertising budgets and you're really relying on publicity and buzz, you need to start in New York and L.A.," explains Fox Searchlight distribution president Steve Gilula...