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...have been built if we'd known about these problems," lamented Eurotunnel's now-evicted CEO, Richard Shirrefs, in February. Attacking the debt is the main priority of new chairman, Jacques Maillot, the founder and former chairman (having stepped down under pressure) of travel group Nouvelles Frontières. Maillot was appointed after he joined forces with stock tip-sheet publisher Nicolas Miguet to rally discontented shareholders and replace Shirrefs and his board. Miguet, who has had several run-ins with the law (including a 1999 conviction for fraud and forgery after he advised clients to invest in a firm...
Staying on the cutting edge of the digerati these days means more than owning a slick cell phone or a hi-res digital camera. It means having a zippy cell-phone ring tone as well. Research firm IDC estimates that Americans spent more than $57 million on ring tones in 2003, up from $16 million in 2002. Hip-hop songs like 50 Cent's In Da Club are among the most popular tunes, but there are thousands to choose from. You can even get prepaid cards at Wal-Mart and 7-Eleven stores just for buying ring tones...
...ANDREA FELAPPI, Médecins sans Frontières nurse...
...Israelis blame Europe for being pusillanimous and pro-Palestinian; Europeans blame Israel for being harsh and inhuman. Yet their ties are inextricable. "Israel is a product of the Shoah, and the Shoah is a product of Europe," says Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins sans Frontières and a fierce Jewish critic of Israel. Chirac's initiative on anti-Semitism may help tear down one obstacle to better relations between Europe and Israel. But a new one is going up in the form of the security fence in the West Bank...
...Zodiac is the latest bad boy to challenge Game Boy on its own turf. The new handheld combines a Palm organizer with vivid-video games and comes fully equipped with a hot graphics accelerator, analog joystick and high-res LCD screen. Designed by former Palm engineers at the Mountain View, Calif., start-up Tapwave, the Zodiac will be available for preorder on Sept. 17 at tapwave.com ($299 for 32 MB of internal flash memory and $399 for 128 MB). Greater entities than this have tried and failed to trump the mighty Game Boy, but Tapwave is stacking its deck...