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...producers signed up to a scheme designed to end the trade in "conflict diamonds" that were helping to fund some of Africa's bloodiest wars, campaigners are turning up the heat on gold miners. Last week, New York City-based Human Rights Watch released a report alleging that the lure of gold fueled massive atrocities over the past few years in the northeastern Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 159-page report, entitled The Curse of Gold, names Swiss gold refining company Metalor Technologies Group as one of those that has purchased Congo's conflict gold...
...ultimate in adventure racing is the Raid Gauloises World Championship in September. The culmination of a series of shorter qualifying races throughout the year in places such as Australia, Sweden and the U.S., the contest this year will lure more than 200 competitors--including Team Montrail, the six-person American team Rusch captains--to the French and Swiss Alps for a 372-mile trek up and down the mountains...
...lure of fatty, sugary fast food--available even in school cafeterias these days--and you've got a generation that's less fit and more prone to obesity than any in history. In the late 1970s, about 7% of U.S. kids were classified as obese; by 2000 that percentage had doubled...
...Coleman found the lure of sudden stardom thrilling and discomfiting. "My wife was managing an MRI facility and making good money in Dallas," he says. "We're not kids. Moving to Nashville, making a record--there's a lot of uncertainty. I was excited but cautious." Whether some of that caution crept into Loco Motive is hard to know, but anyone expecting controversy will be surprised. Troy calls himself "the last of the Brohicans" on the Kid Rock-ish Beast on the Mic and asks the ladies to "get low" and "make it clap" on the willfully stupid (and thoroughly...
...TriGranit Development Corporation. With a government go-ahead expected "very soon," according to TriGranit, work is set to begin on a $188-million, state-of-the-art film complex to be built 15 km outside Budapest, due for completion next year. The 34-hectare Korda Studios plans to lure big-budget productions from neighboring film centers such as Prague, where blockbuster Mission: Impossible was shot; even staunchly British characters like James Bond and Harry Potter may soon be eastward bound. Should British studios be worried? Generous tax breaks for film producers in Hungary mean "U.K. studios have suddenly become much...