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...while, it seemed even her five-octave range and chart-topping history couldn't save MARIAH CAREY from a career meltdown. When her 2001 movie Glitter became synonymous with box-office bust and her public behavior began to include such acts as an impromptu striptease on MTV, Carey's record company paid her a reported $28 million just to go away. But a Carey comeback that started with this year's second-best-selling CD, The Emancipation of Mimi, has crescendoed with the singer earning eight Grammy nominations for Mimi and the single We Belong Together. "This year has been...
...constitution three days later, leaving the project effectively dead and the Union bound to slalom through a welter of existing treaties for at least another couple of years. THE VANISHING BRITISH PRESIDENCY As Britain took over the rotating E.U. presidency last summer, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to chart "a new economic direction" to help Europe "meet the challenge of globalization." Little evidence of that now: especially after the July 7 bombs in London, Blair had more vital concerns than to cajole France and Germany into economic reform. To many observers, he seemed to lose interest...
...This article contains a complex chart -- Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Standing under a fading blue sign that says BIRTHPLACE OF THE AMERICAN V6, Allan Taylor gestures at the factory behind him and grimaces. "Everything in there is obsolete," he says of the Buick engine plant. Taylor has spent 30 years there, and at 59 he's nearing retirement. It's a good thing too, since the plant won't be running much longer. General Motors plans to shut it down in 2008, one of nine factories the company aims to close, eliminating 30,000 jobs. Taylor...
...response, McDonald's, which has 700 outlets in China, says it will list nutritional information on most of its packaging next year, using an easy-to-understand icon-and-bar-chart format. McDonald's already makes some information available. On a recent visit, customer Kangwei Wu saw some brochures on nutritional content at a McDonald's in Guangzhou, but, she said, "they were placed in the back corner of the restaurant where people barely noticed them." KFC, with 1,200 restaurants, began rebuilding its image in China last summer. On its Chinese website, KFC presented a 1950s revolutionary-style picture...
...sent his life in a different direction: music.By all accounts, 50’s rap career has been hugely successful. Earlier this year, he became the first recording artist since the Beatles to simultaneously have four singles in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. His latest solo album, “The Massacre,” is this year’s top selling record.According to an estimate in The New York Times, 50 is worth $50 million. His moniker has been used to sell clothing, sneakers, watches, and even Vitamin Water. Later this month...