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...ensure that Hyundai is competitive in technology and styling. Hyundai's R&D budget has expanded 110% since 1999, to $1.6 billion this year. Hyundai invested $200 million to open or expand R&D centers in California, Michigan and Germany; a $60 million proving ground in California's Mojave Desert opened in January. And in South Korea, he expanded R&D headquarters, adding a new design center complete with a 3-D cinema for viewing virtual models. Lee says Chung visited his office recently and asked, "Do you have enough money?" With a wry smile, Lee says he told...
...things? He can do that all the time." Five years ago, after Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Grand bought Wynn's Mirage Resorts for $6.4 billion, Wynn spent 11/2 months with a sketchbook, walking around the 87 hectares he acquired at more than $1 million each when he bought the Desert Inn (which he had torn down). He also hired real estate mogul Irwin Molasky to quietly buy up the adjacent homes. "When I bought this piece of property, I laughed," says Wynn. "I said, 'This is the most valuable piece of property in the western part of America...
...exporting something far costlier: environmental degradation. Already, crops in Japan and South Korea are withering from Chinese acid rain, which poisons a quarter of the Chinese landmass. Toxic dust from Chinese sandstorms, the result of grassland erosion and logging that have helped turn 27% of the country into desert, travels as far as U.S. shores, obscuring visibility in national parks and raising mercury levels in fish. Although the U.S. still produces far more greenhouse gases, particularly in per capita terms, China is the world's second largest polluter. A U.N. report found that emissions from China nearly doubled from...
...genes of microbes scooped from the ocean and out of the air. On a pilot voyage, through the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic, he found more than 1,800 new species of bacteria and viruses--a surprise, since he had always thought of the Sargasso as a biological desert, relatively devoid of life...
...recruitment strategy of the U.S. military. The President may have been diverted by his second-term agenda-he vowed 60 Social Security speeches in 60 days!-and the Democrats may have given him a free pass on defense policy, but Bush's legacy is embedded in the Mesopotamian desert, and so is the nation's long-term security...