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...Look for a plethora of interactive services. Vivendi Universal's Canal Satellite and rival TPS already offer a way to alert football fans watching one game that a goal is about to be scored in another. Thanks to a 30-second delay, the viewer can switch to the other game, watch the goal, then click back again. Before long these fans will also - with a click of the remote - be able to find out where European stars Luis Figo or Fabien Barthez bought their soccer shoes and order some just like them. The Amsterdam office of Forrester Research predicts sales...
...excitement is palpable among the crowd gathered in the Café Puerto Habana, a brick-walled restaurant atop the banks of the Canal du Midi in the southwestern city of Toulouse (voting pop. 400,000). Though weary from five months of volunteer work, this group of teachers, social workers, civil servants, artists and unemployed are meeting to continue preparations for a revolution: breaking the decades-old lock that traditional parties and career politicians have had on political life in Toulouse. "The aim of this goes far beyond seeking power, or the upcoming election," says Salah Amokrane, 37, head...
...family house sits where a manmade canal will meander through a grove of trees in a few months' time. Once, behind the mansion was an even more elaborate garden. But at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, the Peis were forced to move into the servants' quarters and donate the main house and grounds for a new middle school. Still, the Peis?many of whom had dispersed overseas?managed to keep the house's deed in their name. In 1979, Bei and her husband quietly moved back into the mansion. Over the years, they have slowly restored the house, peeling...
...political power is raw, as a change of administrations has its matter-of-fact brutality). But Georgetown, tucked to the side of all that, to the west of the rawness, has its trees and old brick row houses, with Montrose Park to the north and the C & O canal and the Potomac to the south, and a certain embowered resonance that suggests the secrets and traditions of power. Its axes, M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, have gone noisy and commercial, and an awful Laura Ashley/Ralph Lauren gentrification has crept in everywhere. But Georgetown still has intimacy, beauty, poignancy...
...only we knew what they were going to do next. Because it doesn't always come up roses. James Watt's steam engine generated an Industrial Revolution that gave us a democracy of possessions--and over-population, acid rain, the Love Canal, disappearing forests, tattered ozone layers and Scud missiles. Medical miracles lengthen our lives and take national welfare provision to the edge of crisis. Electronic globalization moves jobs elsewhere...