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...down. Staff numbers have fallen from 6,000 in 2004 to some 4,500 today. The Legoland parks were sold in 2005 to Merlin Entertainments, part of the Blackstone private equity group, which owns Madame Tussauds and Sea Life. And critically, distribution, packaging and production has been outsourced to Eastern Europe and Mexico. As a result, the Lego Group turned a $374 million loss in 2004 into a $281 million profit...
...guilty verdict handed down in Chad's capital, N'Djamena. That controversial judgment, issued on December 26, convicted the six Zoé's Ark's workers of attempted kidnapping in their efforts to secretly fly 103 children they claimed were orphans from war-torn Darfur out of eastern Chad to France for urgent care. Later investigations concluded that virtually all the children were in fact relatively healthy Chadian nationals with at least one living parent, and elsewhere uncovered a range of troubling details surrounding Zoé's Ark and its mission...
...explosion below an overpass in an eastern suburb of Beirut turned Eid's car into a tangled wreck of fire-blackened metal, destroyed or damaged at least 20 other vehicles, shattered glass in a nearby office building and sent a plume of dark smoke into the sky from burning vehicles. Soldiers sealed off the area as fire engines and ambulances raced to the scene of the blast...
...fell short of reminding readers that the same demons haunt Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas - they arise from the evil in human nature. And Kenya is not Africa's sole "island of stability." You have only to look at my home country, Ghana. Africa has been marginalized in the media except when it comes to bloodshed. Unfortunately, you affect Africa's efforts at development as much by what you choose not to report. William K. Agadzi, Worcester, Massachusetts...
...fell short of reminding readers that the same demons haunt Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas?they arise from the evil in human nature. And by the way, Kenya is not Africa's sole "island of stability." You have only to look at my home country, Ghana. Africa has been marginalized in the American media except when it comes to bloodshed. Unfortunately, you affect Africa's efforts toward development as much by what you choose not to report. William K. Agadzi, WORCESTER, MASS...