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Maurice Lévy, chief executive of Paris-based advertising giant Publicis, played quite the provocateur in 2006. With the $1.3 billion acquisition of American online ad company Digitas, he is leading his company into the increasingly important Internet market. And he co-authored a controversial report sharply critical of many of postindustrial France's economic policies. He recently talked policy and politics with Time's Peter Gumbel...
...spokesman for Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI says that some of the company's cables used for long-distance calls and corporate clients had been damaged; household and business telephone service was largely unaffected. "We have no idea when these lines will be repaired," the spokesperson says. While the Tokyo offices of major financial firms Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch reported Thursday that their networks were functioning normally, some businesses in Japan complained of being unable to reach clients in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Rie Kuzumoto, who works at a publishing company, needed to make last-minute changes...
Call it the Year of the Panda. In 2006 a record 31 pandas were born in captivity in China, triple the number in 2000. Zoo Atlanta welcomed a baby panda too: Mei Lan (Chinese for "Atlanta Beauty") was born Sept. 6. "The giant panda's safe," said Zhang Hemin, head of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda...
...Pride of place still goes to such rare items as the Dutch-made Princess Daisy doll (1890), and the two exquisitely detailed tabletop layouts of Chinese rock gardens once owned by the Empress Josephine (1780), which, apart from being handcarved in wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl, look like giant Polly Pocket sets...
...when the frustration of admiring-but not touching-everything from a 17th century rocking horse or Javanese shadow puppets through to vintage Playstations and Pokémon shoes gets too much, there are giant magnetic-doodle screens, fiber-optics and a wooden wave machine to play with. And lots of stuff for the kids to do, too. museumofchildhood.org.uk