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...smartest thing would be for the majors to collaborate on creation of the ultimate digital-distribution hub, a place where every band can sell its wares at a price point of its choosing. Apple's iTunes, despite its current dominance, is vulnerable. Consumers dislike its incompatibility with other music services, and the labels are rebelling against its insistence on controlling prices. (Universal Music, the largest label in the world, has declined to sign a long-term deal with iTunes.) "There's real urgency for the labels to get together and figure this out," says Rick Rubin, the Grammy-winning producer...
...will take decades for the grasslands to rebound, but in the meantime, the scruffy acreage has given rise to a wave of environmental entrepreneurialism that has spun the badly hit steppes of Inner Mongolia into a hub of green research. Both Chinese and foreign scientists are stationed throughout the province, working to kick-start restoration through the right balance of land rehabilitation and social responsibility. "We're working with subsistence farmers," says Brant Kirychuk, a manager for the China-Canada Agriculture Development Program. "We can't just say, 'Man, there's too many livestock on the land. Cut them back...
...just for music aficionados?from classical to Iggy Pop?but also for those interested in design. The furniture of postwar-design star Robin Day has been restored, as have the carpets designed by architects Peter Moro and Leslie Martin. The venue will also be the central hub of this year's London Design Festival (Sept. 15 to 25; londondesignfestival.com...
...opening of T5, as the new terminal is known, should help tackle another of BA's weaknesses: its much criticized hub. "BA has a fundamental challenge none of its European peers suffer from," says Chris Avery, an airline analyst at JPMorgan in London. "Heathrow is stretched to its limits." Conceived for 45 million passengers a year, it sees almost 70 million annually endure its crowded terminals and snaking lines. Airlines wait longer for gates to clear, and creaking baggage-handling equipment is prone to breakdowns. Though it can't ease runway congestion--Heathrow's "Achilles' heel," says Avery...
...laughs at the memory now, but those cramped quarters served as the unlikely launching pad for the investment bank's billion-dollar bet on India. Entwistle's version of sightseeing in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is a tour of the old Goldman outposts in India's financial hub. First stop, suite 1034 at the Hilton--down the hall from a group of Thai masseuses and rotating airline crews--where Goldman set up shop in late 2005, with Entwistle as employee No. 1. Next, a second temporary home in a worn-down office building abutting a sprawling slum. When rains flooded...