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...Collins turned Ripplewood's renamed Phoenix Seagaia Resort over to his fly-fishing buddy Michael Glennie, who had run the Boca Raton Resort and Club and the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, but who concedes that "this is a different challenge." Seagaia boasts five golf courses, four hotels and a convention center on six miles of Pacific coastline. It offers bowling, tennis and riding. It also has a water park called the Ocean Dome that costs $5 million a year to operate and includes simulated waves lapping at a beach made of imported crushed marble...
Every week, the Boston Phoenix runs an ad from the “Egg Donor Program” that offers $5,000 “plus karma credits” to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook’s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women...
...China's World Trade Organization membership does nothing to open the country's media outlets to foreign ownership or competition. But there are expectations that things will gradually loosen up. In October, for example, Phoenix and CETV were granted permission to broadcast legally in Guangdong province. The government also recently organized its highly fragmented, state-owned media companies into two mammoth conglomerates, possibly in preparation for the day when foreigners will be allowed greater access...
...however, potential TV partners remain in short supply. While there are rumors that Tom.com hopes to hook up with one of the big foreign broadcasters?Phoenix, STAR, or Sun TV, a network run by Hong Kong-based ATV?for a mainland move, there is little evidence that any of them are biting. PCCW, the Hong Kong telecommunications and new media company owned by Li's son Richard, holds a 4.5% stake in Tom.com, and there is always the possibility that the two could merge. After all, it was Richard (with lots of help from his father) who formed STAR...
Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...