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...felt it my reportorial duty to chat with a cross-section of candidates, and yet I knew I had neither the time nor the tolerance toward the emotionally disturbed to speak to all 2,000. So I took my cue from "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett and tried to interview just 16 competitors who were trying to prove they could survive a Hollywood audition. However I was to find that, like watching the "Survivor" program itself, or eating semi-rancid potato chips when one is starving, it's hard to stop...
...launch a homegrown Internet revolution. The communist government, meanwhile, made it clear foreigners weren't welcome in the politically sensitive content business. While this gave locals an edge, they had to struggle to carve out a role for themselves. Net pioneers had to placate the censors while opening chat rooms on controversial topics?from sexual mores to a tragic schoolhouse explosion?that Chinese wanted to discuss. They also found ways to bypass China's byzantine regulatory system and tap into U.S. capital markets. Netease raised $70 million, Sina $68 million, while Sohu brought in $60 million...
...recent segment called Beat Lab concentrated on teaching people how to become pop stars. A series of 10 half-hour TV shows included discussions with popular groups such as Ace of Base about how they got started. The Kworld.se website offered a Beat Lab corner where people could chat online with artists, get resource material and link to music companies. The website sold a CD-ROM 10-part music course, which went from how to compose a song to how to write a contract with a record company...
...Chat with Dan Kadlec about the future of the economy on AOL at 7 p.m. E.T. on 3/21. Keyword: Live
...mostly because one is not supposed to do it. In 1996, two years after he broke his leg and set in motion what some observers see as a quiet struggle to succeed him, John Paul II, like Paul VI before him, explicitly forbade the Cardinals to so much as chat about the matter of the next Pontiff. Still, in the media, candidates cropped up, and lately the speculation has grown intense, fueled by John Paul's declining health--at almost 81, he shows the symptoms of Parkinson's disease--and by a flurry of Vatican activity. Last month 44 Cardinals...