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...city that was a pit stop for male vice into an international family destination. Expectations that he was going to top his past extravaganzas were so huge that when he started construction on the lush, waterfall-laden, 140-ft. man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened last week, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage in 1989, the pirate ships he put outside...
...animal protests occur each year, but there has been rumor that they may be more violent this year,” Harvard College Professor Marc D. Hauser, director of the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Lab in William James Hall, writes in an e-mail. “Some groups have broken into [other] labs and released animals. This doesn’t give them freedom, as they soon...
...There continues to be no better symbol of the two countries' inability to bridge their differences than the Yasukuni Shrine. In Tokyo this week, the rumor mill was working overtime, with suggestions that Koizumi has agreed to skip a visit this year as a gesture of good faith to the Chinese. That may or may not turn out to be the case. Yasukuni is controversial in Japan?some lawmakers say trips to the shrine are counterproductive. But others emphasize that those Japanese politicians who want to go to Yasukuni will never be compelled to stop simply because China asks them...
...seen through the eyes of a neutral, nondescript hero: "It was on the whole a peaceful, happy life--till the October of 1947, when he found that the people around had begun to speak and act like savages." The assassination of John F. Kennedy reaches this region as a rumor, and a fairly incredible one at that. The slain President's last name sounds like the Tamil word for glass. "Could any man give himself such a name?" asks one local skeptic...
...already two acquisitions valued at more than $2.5 billion, bulking up the company's medical and automation businesses. A 19-year Siemens veteran, including three years running its U.S. operations, Kleinfeld is known for his cross-cultural savvy--a true next-generation European CEO. The rumor mill is spinning that his next deal could be with a cell-phone handsetmaker to fill the one gap in Siemens' communications portfolio. By Coco Masters