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...budget film required the cast to be on hand every day and couldn't release Shu Qi for a commercial shoot?which would take perhaps five days. "I told Ang, it was hard to commit to a project for so long," Wong recalls, "as she also had to earn money and pay the rent." In the end, Wong and his star opted for the commercial, and it was Zhang Ziyi who ended up atop the tiled rooftops, on horseback in China's western desert and at the Oscar ceremony in March. Sitting in his office in Hong Kong...
...course, the big attraction of the job at Datango, where he writes software that offers electronic "guided tours" to help surfers navigate websites, was the chance to earn more money. In India he made only about $35 a month for his part-time job. Now he's earning $3,300 monthly, though nearly half goes to taxes. "I'm self-reliant now and can afford to support my parents," he says proudly...
Gonzales has a 40-acre farm in Durango, but half of it is covered with cactus, and the beans he grows earn him less than $5 a day. "With six children and my wife, it is not enough." He was in debt 50,000 pesos--about $5,000--and could not pay even the interest on his loan. "I was thinking about coming to the U.S. for a while. Finally, I told my wife, and she said, 'If you can do it, get it done.'" His only other choice was to sell part of his land, which would make...
...courtesy of a new high-tech toy from Hasbro called M.A.G.S. ($19.99), which stands for Music Activated Gaming System. Plug M.A.G.S. into a CD player, or anything else that plays music, and it converts the sound waves into a graphics display, which you can shoot to earn points. Extra bonus for nailing Kenny...
...makeshift rings set up in sheds or forest clearings. The contests feature up to 16 fights a day between boxers who have traveled from villages on either side of the border. Many are professional journeymen, living day-to-day and bout-to-bout from the tiny purses they earn. These matches seem a million miles from the gloved superstar kickboxing bouts held in stadiums in Bangkok. On the border, fighters simply cannot afford to lose. Many share their meager wages with managers and trainers. That financial pressure only intensifies the violence...