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...pioneers of the new American frontiers that ring the old cities and suburbs--places like Colorado's Douglas County, Ohio's Delaware County and Farmwell Hunt in Ashburn, Va., which advertises itself as a place "where family values, engaged residents, nature, fun and safety come together to form a premier community." And then he went even further, to the rural communities that Presidents don't visit very much because of the potential inefficiencies of spending precious time on such sparsely populated locales. Bush put dozens of such communities on his itinerary, and he can still rattle off their names...
...England hooligans still cause mayhem outside stadiums, but the Premier league has managed to contain the violence inside by retrofitting stadiums American style, with assigned seats instead of terraces for standing, and by offering more season-ticket plans. Yet the learning curve has been tragic. A brutal 1985 melee in Brussels, in which Liverpool fans charged at supporters of Italy's Juventus, left 39 people dead in the panic. Nearly 100 fans died in a crowd-control disaster in Sheffield...
...from five minutes in 2002. Brand recall was even more surprising--65%, compared with 23% for products advertised on TV. Having installed 100,000 TVs in 2,620 stores, Wal-Mart is rolling out new plasma and LCD models--some at eye level for "can't miss" advertising. PRN (Premier Retail Networks) customizes entertainment, news and product p.r. so that Wal-Mart TV differs from the PRN network showing at a Best Buy or a Sears. Shoppers at Wal-Mart have watched a Britney Spears concert and Fox News coverage of the 2004 election, with 12 minutes...
...South China Morning Post than did Elton John, who had performed in Hong Kong that week. That's because in Asia, Li is almost royalty. Not only is she the first female boss of a foreign-listed, state-owned Chinese company, but her father is former Chinese Premier Li Peng, a controversial figure who became the public face of the Communist Party's hard line against democracy protesters in 1989. Li Peng, who stepped down last year, was also once minister of the power industry, so his daughter has dealt for years with charges of nepotism. Being his daughter "does...
...Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Hospital students have to come here to train,” said Jones. “We are the premier education center for this type of technology...