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...missing a giant opportunity," says Tony Krantz, the producer of TV's 24 and whose next project - a trio of martial-arts pics to be shot in Hong Kong - will be backed by the Weinsteins' fund. "Asia's really the dominant story for this next century." Miramax's parent, Disney, is already in the game. This year, it released its first production tailored for China - a Mandarin-language cartoon...
Coming soon to a worried parent near you: a sales pitch for a $1,000 football helmet that can monitor the precise location and severity of impacts to little Johnny's head. Leading helmetmaker Riddell plans to begin flooding high schools with take-home brochures this month and to start shipping this concussion-sensing gear to families in November. Says Riddell marketing chief Jim Heidenreich: "If people buy $1,000 drivers and $500 baseball bats, we hope they'll spend that kind of money on head protection...
WUHAN, CHINA Parent sleepover on first day of college...
...Jankovic both had to practice in an abandoned indoor swimming pool in downtown Belgrade for lack of other facilities. Both were also kids when U.S. planes bombed their hometown in the campaign to drive Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic out of Kosovo back in 1999. At her parent's request, Ivanovic practised in the early morning to avoid the bombing runs. Jankovic was playing junior tournaments in Europe at the time and had to take a seven-hour train ride to Budapest and make her way past suspicious immigration officers looking askance at her Yugoslav passport even to play. When...
...like those recently launched in California would be to allow children who have been clamoring for a dog to have one temporarily to make sure they are really willing and able to look after it [Aug. 20]. That way, the entire burden of care would not fall on a parent. Barbara Harwood, Auckland