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...That's a tall order, especially in the post dot-com bust. The company's performance has been dogged by its $17.1 billion in debt from all those acquisitions, and by questions familiar to many big media conglomerates these days: How do you really evaluate such complex entities? Vivendi's holdings are more disparate than most; they include the water company, a movie studio, a telecom provider and a book publisher. While the company is by some measures outperforming its competitors (the company reported 17 percent revenue growth last quarter, compared with 7 percent growth...
...Sept. 11, New Yorkers were almost scarily polite. That's not entirely the case anymore; people scream at each other in the streets more now, but still, something has changed - a new gentility does seem to have taken hold. Conspicuous consumption is so 2000, and not just because the dot-com bust means nobody has the resources to consume conspicuously anymore. Nationwide, as a mini-baby boomlet of children conceived last fall hits full stride, we're reminded that we are still hopeful for the future...
...from $3 million in 2000. Crooked Web auctions account for much of that, but 15% of online scams come directly via e-mail. How do they work? Susan Grant, director of the NCL's Internet Fraud Watch, has seen them all and was happy to walk me through the dot-cons that landed in my In box last week...
...majestic new stadium on the South Korean isle of Cheju basks in the noon sun, just like the crater volcanoes that dot this tropical wonderland and inspired the arena's form. Meanwhile, in Miyagi, Japan, a $585 million marvel of a stadium sits in the rolling countryside like a gleaming samurai helmet, designed to hold nearly 50,000 spectators. "The World Cup gave us the perfect opportunity to develop a real infrastructure," crows Junji Ogura, vice president of the Japan Football Association. There's just one problem: neither the Cheju nor Miyagi stadiums is home to a football team...
...lobsters walking across the reef. The tour ends with a flight over the islands and reefs where, from an altitude of only a few hundred meters, it's easy to spot the spout of a migrating humpback whale or the remains of one of the many shipwrecks that dot the coast. Browse www.abrolhos.com.au for more details...