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...video clip from the Bosnian war is profoundly shocking: a Serb Orthodox priest can be seen blessing Serb troops from a unit known as the Scorpions as they head out on their mission in 1995. The same men are then shown forcing six emaciated Bosnian Muslims from the back of a canvas-covered truck. They bind the prisoners' hands, march them into a clearing and machine-gun them, one by one, while the others watch. The clip, filmed by the unit and obtained by a Serb human-rights investigator, aired last week in the Hague at the trial...
...come to worship: the Venice Biennale. "Have you seen that little QuickTime?" he asks. "I must send it to you." Within seconds, the short movie teaser for New Zealand's Biennale party on June 8 is zipping across the Tasman. Fashioned by Greive and vodka sponsor 42 Below, the clip uses cheesy footage of dance instructors from '70s TV with a cheeky Italian voice-over: "If you are coming to the New Zealand Biennale party, you must first learn to dance with the passion of fire," it begins. "See how we bend, with a firmness of thigh and buttock...
...industry. Since 1996 companies such as Clear Channel and Infinity (part of Viacom) have taken advantage of deregulation to buy hundreds of stations with the idea of bringing scale--and higher ad prices--to the airwaves. For a while it worked, as industry revenues rose at a double-digit clip during the late '90s ad boom and stations racked up profits thanks to cost cutting. But for listeners, that consolidation brought homogeneity, as corporate playlists suffocated local jocks, and ever more ads were jammed into each hour...
That's apparently sufficient for now. Despite the troubles of its flagship label, and growing competition from giant mass marketers like Procter & Gamble and Avon, Lauder's revenues have been climbing at an 8% clip annually. "If the deal works, great," says Linda Bolton Weiser, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "If it doesn't, they aren't betting the ranch." Hip makeup brands like M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown and a stable of high-margin skin creams and hair-care products should keep the company growing in the short term. Ford says he'll be mining Lauder's archives for ideas...
...other wood residuals. The system, using no fossil fuel and similar to BedZED's wood-burning plant, also heats an indoor swimming pool, a cultural center and a school. Spain now produces 7% of the world's solar photovoltaic energy, and solar sources are "growing at a 50% clip per year," says Javier García Breva, director of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Savings, the government body responsible for promoting and subsidizing renewable energies. Local authorities are even reviving some of the tiny, forgotten hydroelectric plants that dot the Spanish countryside...