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...sculptor and the teacher turned activist. Everyone's dreams are different--like the former pilot who swam the English Channel--but just the idea of a dream can be powerful and contagious. As Goethe said, "Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." Turn the page to meet people who are making their dreams come true...
...With previous cuts totaling only 10% and sluggish growth eroding revenues, Chirac is looking to new Finance Minister Hervé Gaymard to work some magic. Last week, Gaymard pledged tax cuts in 2006 and 2007 and vowed to sell stakes worth nearly 320 billion in state firms including nuclear-power company Areva and utility mammoth Electricité de France. That, Gaymard hopes, will stimulate economic growth that, at 2.3% in 2004, was below government estimates of 2.5%. Surprisingly, Gaymard is predicting the same for this year. "Given commodity prices like oil rising, we should count on lower growth next year...
...shadow behind him on the wall is the first form of using technology to tell a story." That notion inspires one of K�'s loveliest moments: the male twin and his court jester make shadow puppets--a rabbit, a dog, a bird--on the wall. Simple magic. So is a dance, by Noriko Takahashi, as the daughter of the Counselor's chief archer, that expresses the purest love through the choreographer's art and the dancer's plangent grace. Behind the scenes, K� is dizzyingly complicated, with a crew of 165, including technicians who operate the gurney crane that moves...
...does not mean the technology is anything like that of office photocopying. Kodak's machines can be 40 ft. long and cost from $11,000 to $5.5 million. Its pricey Versamark, for example, produces color prints in huge volume--at a rate of 1,000 ft. per minute. The magic: digital technology makes it possible to economically print custom copies of anything at almost any volume--books, flyers, bills. "It's a reasonable thing for Kodak to do," says Jack Kelly, an analyst with Goldman Sachs. "The competition isn't as vicious." Barbara Pellow, chief marketing officer of Kodak...
...have paid off commercially, too, given that happy animals equal happy visitors. The zoo has nearly quintupled its visitor traffic since the changes were made, and now attracts more customers than any other zoo in Japan. Zoo managers from across the country have also come to study Kosuge's magic. He might not be Dr. Doolittle, but to the animals of Asahiyama Zoo, he could be the next best thing...