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...division. Like the NFL and NBA, the Premiership enjoys tremendous domestic support - league-wide attendance averaged 92% in 2006-2007. But it's the Premier League's global expansion model that has rivals drooling. "It wouldn't surprise me if one of the things that may have caught the eye of the U.S. sports is the massive increase in value of overseas rights deals," says Alex Byars, a senior manager in the sports business group at Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Under a new international broadcast rights agreement, Byars says, the Premiership will earn an average of nearly $430 million...
...risks in addition to being vulnerable to tectonic and seismic activity. The lessons that can be learned from the Three Gorges Dam have led me to view China’s new $60 billion project directing Yangtze River water to the silt-choked Yellow River with a very cautious eye...
...think, by his wintery eye. It would have been easy to turn this movie into a black comedy, but Lumet is not having any of that (indeed, he has not generally been at his best in overtly comic pieces). Neither is he a conscious moralist. He is, at heart, a melodramatist, pushing an intricate story along smartly, but never in a rushed or hasty manner. He is one of those blessed directors who first knows what he wants and then quickly recognizes when he's got it. His last movie, Find Me Guilty, a wild take on an endless Mafia...
...However, the very suggestion that sports are somehow above vice is flawed. It seems odd that many sports fans can’t seem to accept PEDs, but are perfectly willing to turn a blind eye to the corrupting influence of gambling, collegiate athletics scandals, the business-first nature of most professional franchises, and the myriad of other problems that plague sports. Sports are not and have never been pure. Even regarding Bonds’ “asterisked” home-run record, too many baseball fans forget that the old home run king himself admitted to using PEDs...
...that protect private homes even if they're built in risky areas. This, in turn, has caused the Forest Service - which is supposed to perform a range of wilderness functions - to become largely a firefighting agency, devoting nearly half its budget to that one job. That has caught the eye of Congress, which wants spending to be brought under control. The loss in recent years of several firefighters who died protecting homes has further caused Washington to rethink its policies. "So much development in California has followed the pioneering spirit," says Keeley of the USGS. "But we're reaching critical...