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...behind Moscow's first connection to cable TV and high-speed Internet? He's Frank Baker, 73, a U.S. naval officer in the Korean War. Baker is president of a small New York City venture-capital firm, Andersen Group, that plans to close a $40 million deal to purchase 51% of ComCor-TV (CCTV), a Moscow broadband provider, in the fall. CCTV has wired some 130,000 dwellings in the city and plans to connect 70,000 more in the upscale Central Administrative District by next March. A 47-channel package, which includes Russian-language versions of Animal Planet...
...real estate. The impact of this unilateral ban is indirect - Iranian companies haven't been allowed to do business in the U.S. for decades. But a similar gambit appeared to work against North Korea. In that case, the U.S. blacklisted Banco Delta Asia, a Macau bank where North Korean government and military officials had, according to some accounts, stashed millions of dollars. By targeting Banco Delta Asia, the U.S. effectively isolated it from the international financial community (banks in other countries did not want to jeopardize their U.S. business by trading with Banco Delta Asia), thus severely restricting the North...
...open until 6 p.m. on weekends and holidays during the winter months and has a wonderful traditional and contemporary art collection. After that, travel a few minutes further down the road to the Chongdong Theater, tel: (82-2) 751 1500, and you can take in a traditional Korean performing art such as pansori, or Korean opera. It's a good idea to call ahead to make a reservation. There are also plenty of inexpensive good restaurants in the area that serve up popular Korean dishes...
...next generation: LG makes a phone with a breathalyzer built in. Sprint and Nextel have introduced Sprint Family Locator, kind of like LoJack for your kids. Several companies are trying out scented phones, while Nokia dreams of developing one with smell sensors. Samsung is at work with South Korean scientists on cell phones, according to the Korea Times, "that can feel, think, evolve and reproduce" and have "artificial chromosomes," all of which suggests that our gadgets will eventually replace us as parents--pestering, tracking, supervising and ultimately procreating...
...various bloggers throughout the Web. Most students have been told to be wary of what they post on information-sharing sites such as MySpace or Facebook.com, but few think about the damage another person can do. Solove opens his book with the example of Dog Poop Girl, a Korean woman who did not clean up after her small dog defecated on the subway. A fellow passenger snapped a picture of the scene, and soon she unwittingly became a national joke. Like the Star Wars Kid, whose friends found and posted his video on the Internet without his permission, the Korean...