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...Broadcasting resources in China are owned, tightly controlled and censored by the government. There simply aren't many ways for overseas broadcasters to get signals to the public. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. beams some programming into the country through its STAR satellite business and its joint venture with Phoenix TV, a 24-hour news channel based in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company) has invested in CETV, another Chinese news and entertainment channel. But, it is technically illegal for most Chinese citizens to receive these broadcasts...
DIED. MIKE DARR, 25, outfielder for the San Diego Padres; after the car he was driving hit an interstate-highway median; in Phoenix, Ariz. Following the loss of minor leaguer Gerik Baxter last summer, Darr became the second Padres player killed in a car crash in less than a year...
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...
Cuomo seemed pleased with his newfound anonymity, at least temporarily. In a 1997 interview with the Boston Phoenix, Cuomo said,“It’s actually kind of cool…If I were going to a big state school or something, it would probably make studying much more difficult because I would be having too much fun reaping the advantages of being a star.” Still ivory-tower academia was not all that Cuomo had hoped. He told Guitar World that “as soon as I get in school...
...jettisoned in the next. Japan is loath to do that kind of tinkering. Throughout the '90s, with most voters comfortably well-off and complacent, leaders were able to subvert the kind of creative destruction that could have reinvigorated Japan's economic infrastructure. As a result, no entrepreneurial phoenix is rising from Japan's industrial ashes. Real-estate values are at 1982 levels. Manufacturing has been siphoned off to China and other cheaper countries and unemployment is at a post-war high of 5.6%. A survey by Koizumi's office finds that 65% of the population are feeling insecure and fearful...