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Several sports in Sydney have a Patrick Rafter or Anna Kournikova type in the draw--a real looker--but none has anybody to equal badminton's Camilla Martin of Denmark, who was the attraction on the pressroom TV. To say she is smashing is not just to describe her game. But her game, as it happens, is indeed smashing. At 5 ft. 9 in., she is usually taller than her foe, who invariably is a woman from China, Indonesia or South Korea--countries that dominated the sport until the Danes came along...
...concluded that doing things the Canadian way was just not good enough. She revamped her training program, settled in Denmark and hired former world canoe champion Christian Frederiksen as her coach. (He also was for a time her lover.) Brunet captured silver at Atlanta in 1996, losing by 0.2 sec. She thought silver was O.K. until the replay showed how close she was to gold. "That made it worse," she says, "Even now it bothers...
...BRUSSELS, 1998 France, Italy, Greece, Denmark and Luxembourg team up to block introduction of all new GM products in the European Union--including those approved by E.U. scientific advisory committees and even a few developed in these five countries. Several E.U. countries have also banned the importation and use of 18 GM crops and foods approved before the blockade went into effect. New safety rules could eventually break this logjam...
...electronic delivery in the E.U. would be obliged to register with one of the 15 member states' tax authorities and levy VAT on all European online sales. Because Luxembourg has the lowest VAT rate in the E.U.--15%, in contrast to as much as 25% in Sweden and Denmark--the Grand Duchy would be the obvious place for corporations to register their sales--and it would hence reap the tax revenues...
...America's largest Internet service provider. Twenty-two million members get to the Internet through AOL. If it were a state, AOL would rank second in the nation in population, behind California. The company has a market capitalization of $125 billion--a bit less than the GDP of Denmark. And with its proposed purchase of one of the largest and most powerful media giants, Time Warner, many are beginning to ask, Should we worry about AOL the way the government worries about Microsoft...