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Madonna has invaded Hong Kong. The pop megastar's likeness adorned most of the city's billboards this spring, her music was piped through its subway stations, and baseless rumors had crowds lining up for nearly a mile down Queen's Road to catch a glimpse of the Material Girl in person...
...This article contains a detailed map. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] For a snapshot of China's global influence, just look at the planned 2008 Olympic-torch relay. The 85,000-mile route includes Chinese oil suppliers Kazakhstan and Oman and cities with large Chinese communities like San Francisco. But supporters of a free Tibet decried its inclusion, and some activists saw Vancouver's omission as retaliation for Canada's human-rights criticism of China...
...greatest strength is our work ethic,” Pfabe said. “We’re always putting in that extra effort, that extra mile. We’re extra focused towards achieving our short-term and long-term goals...
...workshop in Beijing. There, workers transferred the negatives to so-called “lantern slides” before coloring them in by hand.Thirty-one of these hand-colored slides constitute “Vanished Kingdoms.” They document the Wulsins’ nine-month, 1,300-mile Central China Expedition for the National Geographic Society, with a focus on the people and architecture they met along the way.Because of their fragile nature, the slides have been scanned and enlarged to the size of a splayed broadsheet for the exhibition. Alas, the digitization touches even the most obscure...
...huge fan base all over the world, Premier League clubs have struck gold. Teams in English football's top flight notched up around $2.5 billion in revenue last season, almost triple the level of a decade ago, making it the world's richest football league by a country mile. New owners are piling in: foreign investors have snapped up four clubs in the past year - Liverpool, Portsmouth, Aston Villa and West Ham United - to add to the three which already had non-British owners. The rush isn't over; in April, Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team...