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...James Bond films, except Goldeneye, were shot here. In recent years, however, Pinewood and its nearby sister studio, Shepperton, have faced competition from low-cost Eastern European countries. Britain will never be an inexpensive place to make movies, but Pinewood hopes to remain competitive with this one-stop-shop concept, creating economies of scale by combing popular permanent sets with Britain's experienced, respected industry workforce. "It's not a pie-in-the-sky idea," says Iain Staples, an industry analyst at Clear Capital, an equity research firm, adding that the cost savings of Eastern Europe often prove illusory, because...
...drawn, some neighborhood residents say they feel like they are a country away from friends and neighbors on the other side of Baghdad. "I want to feel like I'm in one Iraq - with one army, one security force - not these different groups," says Sabeha Hassun, who owns a shop selling women's beauty and clothing supplies just up the street from an American military outpost where a double murder - of CLC members - happened in broad daylight last week...
...Zhou claims he has not been changed by the experience, but his crusading days are over. With money borrowed from his parents, he says he is going back into the vegetable business, as well as opening a small coffee shop and Internet café. As for citizen journalism, "I have already spent more than half a year as a living example of how this works," he wrote on his blog last December. "The task of saving yourselves is in your own hands now." Many millions of Chinese Netizens will be watching to see who - if anyone - among their number rises...
...fully digital. So, if ever a new telecom player were to carve out a piece of the lucrative nationwide wireless pie, now would be the time. "This is the last auction of any magnitude the FCC will do for the foreseeable future," says Rebecca Arbogast, analyst with financial-services shop Stifel, Nicolaus...
...most Gazans were in a mad scramble to go shopping, and they returned with everything from goats to tires to jerricans full of gasoline. One stout woman in a veil threaded nimbly through barbed wire with a tray of canned fruit balanced on her head. The Palestinians cleaned out every shop on the Egyptian side: By afternoon, there was nothing to buy within a six-mile distance of the border; and even the Sinai town of El-Arish, three hours drive away, had been sucked dry of gasoline. One taxi driver who brought back cartons of cigarettes and gallons...