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...sail solo? That's the question France-based CMA-CGM is asking, as the world's fifth largest container-ship company braces for a storm of industry consolidation. The fragmented shipping business, with more than 30 international players, is consolidating as fuel prices soar and the number of ships, boosted by expanding Chinese production, is increasing faster than the volume of trade. Says CMA CEO Jacques Saadé: "[Big] shipping companies have made good profits over the past few years; they have the means to buy smaller companies." CMA had $4.95 billion in revenues last year and has been expanding rapidly...
...most romantic filmmaker. His iridescent images detail love's anguish and rapture. Great-looking women throw themselves at cool guys, and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...
...like what they find. Nielsen//NetRatings clocked growth in second-quarter searches using Google and Yahoo! at 6% and 9% respectively. And with the growth in broadband connections boosting the time Internet users spend online, advertisers get more chances to entice them. Global Internet ad revenues are set to soar by almost 20% this year. Not surprisingly, old-media firms are feeling the pinch. News Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch last week paid out $580 million for Los Angeles-based Intermix Media, the company behind the burgeoning social network at MySpace.com. The two-year-old service hosts music, chat rooms...
...Rondine (pronounced Ron-dee-nay) is not yet a repertory staple. But in 1984 the New York City Opera staged a bubbly version that revealed the many charms of the seductive score. Now in Chicago, the renascent Lyric Opera is proving that treated with respect, the little bird can soar...
...might be mistaken for carvings on a stone frieze. Soon the frieze begins to ripple with motion as the cranes stretch their wings and, voices rising, take off in small groups of 20 and 30. For over an hour, the river casts out lines of great gray birds. They soar over winter-brown pasture and goldencorn stubble--giant kites on invisible strings. But sandhill cranes cannot pass for paper birds very long. The racket they make gives them away...