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...kids to home and leisure, the networks rank among Hendricks' many recent gambits that were met with industry skepticism. There are some who think Discovery has grown too fast, diluting the quality and appeal of its biggest brand by launching so many channels and other ventures, including a flagging chain of 154 retail stores. Then, too, competition is heating up, and not just from the new breed of reality-TV shows like Joe Millionaire and The Bachelorette. National Geographic recently joined forces with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Cable Networks to start a competing, eponymous adventure channel that reaches about...
...year, you will drown in big fat Greekness. There will undoubtedly be a Big Fat Greek video game, a Big Fat Greek Vegas revue, a Big Fat Greek chain of diners, Big Fat Greek Underoos. The Greeks haven't had this much influence over the culture since the Greeks...
...DIED. KEMMONS WILSON, 90, founder of the Holiday Inn chain whom TIME once called "the Man with 300,000 Beds"; in Memphis, Tenn. Irate at shoddy accommodations during a family vacation, Wilson built the first Holiday Inn in Memphis in 1952 with the goal of offering customers something novel: comfortable, child-friendly, inexpensive lodging. Fueled by a growth in American families traveling the new interstate highway system, the chain expanded from 100 in 1959 to 1,700 in 1975. There are now some 3,000 motels worldwide bearing the Holiday Inn name...
...just three years as CEO of British publisher IPC Media, Bailey, 40, closed six flagging magazines and revamped others. AOL Time Warner (TIME's owner) bought the recharged IPC in 2001 for $1.6 billion. In February, Bailey becomes CEO of Trinity Mirror, the $1.6 billion newspaper chain, just in time to face a price war between Trinity's Daily Mirror and its rival...
...yacht club because there isn't a single one between the Suez Canal and Phuket. "I now term this part of southern Sri Lanka as the Serendip Riviera. The stretch from Galle to Tangalla will in time become the best address in the Indian Ocean." Amanresorts, the ultra-chic chain run by Adrian Zecha, is moving in too. Zecha is restoring Galle's New Oriental Hotel, a 300-year-old Dutch barracks that was converted into a hotel by the British in the early 19th century. During the civil war, visiting foreign correspondents were usually the only guests in this...