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...impromptu campus tour: This lot is where the new high-tech center will be built. This circular driveway is the main outdoor hangout. And in this otherwise empty dormitory, a lone television set is playing. The TV, visible through a window, glows on, always tuned to the same channel, day and night. "After the second murder, they evacuated the building," says one of the students through an interpreter. "And they forgot to turn it off. Kind of eerie...
...able to anticipate success...and your own participation in it," he writes in a passage about MTV. Yet there's nothing simple about doing that, and Redstone teaches by example. Early on, bankers wanted him to sell MTV. Redstone stood firmly opposed, and turned a largely unknown music-video channel into a phenomenally profitable global network for young adults...
...Paso and Juarez recently teamed up--behind the backs of their federal governments--to increase the amount of treated wastewater that Juarez can channel to agriculture. That will eventually free up river water for colonias like Anapra--and lessen the chances of El Paso's drying up along with Juarez. And there's an $833 million, 20-year plan to tap new aquifers for both cities. Says Maria Elena Giner, of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission: "I don't think anyone has ever confronted the scope of what we're racing against...
...depends on who ended up with it. What I saw was that MTV was not merely a music channel; it was a generational channel. When we acquired Viacom, the world was saying MTV was a fad. And that was a challenge. Viacom deserves credit for making MTV into a worldwide brand...
...Ethnic minorities make up only 6% of the population, but immigrants have more than doubled from the annual 90,000 during the early 1990s. The suffocation of 58 Chinese being smuggled across the English Channel in a refrigerator truck last year added fuel to a debate about who should be entitled to enter and remain in the country. Is Britain a "soft touch"? Does it need more foreign workers, or fewer? There is no consensus. William Hague has made the temporary detention of asylum seekers a central plank of his campaign, responding to anxieties in some towns where asylum seekers...