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...FIFA World Cup Special Coverage from TIME...
...mere $2.5 million. The state will now have a 55.6% share in Russia's biggest company. I N D I C A T O R S The Cup Of Gold Even economists want a piece of the World Cup action. A new report sees correlation between GDP and FIFA rank (with the notable exceptions of the U.S. and Argentina). And although Japan may lose, its flagging economy should win: from 1954 to 1998, GDP growth for host nations averaged 3.3%. Low Blow For High Tech n Resourceful nerds and music lovers cracked Sony's much-vaunted - and more maligned - compact...
...FIFA World Cup Special Coverage from TIME...
...This Cup will be different on two counts: Japan and Korea. Here we have cultures that seem perpetually in collision serving as the first ever co-hosts?a compromise brokered amid epic politicking among FIFA's 24-man executive committee. So far, there's been little co-anything between these two longtime nemeses. They have bickered about whose name should be first. (It's Korea.) They have bickered about the names of the mascots Ato, Nik and Kaz?too Japanese, say the Koreans. They have bickered about the shape of the goal...
...have to expect," lamented Desailly, following a brutal "friendly" game against Australia last November. "What are you going to do?most teams don't have the technical abilities we do and contact is one way they cut our advantage." They'll have to hope for staunch protection from FIFA's referees, who issued a record 22 red cards during...