Word: magical
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...takes a powerful magic to keep Brits quiet on a Saturday night - just ask the nation's beleaguered police. Yesterday evening, pubs and clubs fell silent as 20 million people tuned in to a TV show to see a question of global significance finally resolved. The final of Britain's Got Talent wasn't just about whether Susan Boyle - Scotland's least processed export since steel-cut porridge oats - would triumph. Nor were viewers drawn simply by the lure of car-crash television amid frenzied media speculation that Boyle or some other vulnerable contestant might crack on camera...
...Huang is brokering a deal between the Cleveland Cavaliers and a Hong Kong real estate and telecommunications conglomerate called New World Development to buy up to a 15% minority stake in the National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise and its sports arena. The Cavs, who are currently battling the Orlando Magic for the Eastern Conference title, boast this season's most valuable player, LeBron James, who's known in the U.S. as "King James" and in China as "the Little Emperor." (Watch TIME's video "LeBron James: Leader of the Redeem Team...
...Stay Free offer is pretty much as it sounds: one child under 15 per paying adult gets a free ride at the all-inclusive Club Med resorts in Sandpiper, Fla.; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; and Cancún and Ixtapa, Mexico. Access to kids clubs, with their circus schools, magic programs and science activities (for ages 4 and up), is included. Meanwhile, adults can keep busy playing tennis, snorkeling and sailing. Depending on the property, rates start at $145 to $180 per night. Book by June 30 for stays through...
...authors of the new report say targeted measures are needed to tackle poverty and unemployment in the poorest regions, but they admit there's no magic bullet. As the recession bites ever deeper, and with a general election coming in September, German policymakers will have to wake up to the nation's growing poverty problems - and fast...
Hurricanes and housing busts have already battered South Florida's image as an earthly paradise. But Miami's reputation for dysfunction is on display again this spring as the Obama Administration shifts health-care reform into high gear - and a spate of studies slams the Magic City as the poster child for exorbitant medical costs. This week the Milliman Medical Cost Index listed the 2008 average private-provider costs for a Miami family of four - $20,282 - as the highest among the 14 major U.S. cities it studied, adding that more than 40% of that amount came out of Miamians...