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...joint venture between the state-owned France T?l?visions and the country's biggest private channel, TF1. Its half-hourly news bulletins are broadcast in both languages from its studios south of Paris; an Arabic version is planned for next year, and there are even provisional plans for programs in Spanish. By cable and satellite, France 24 claims to reach 190 million households in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as viewers in Washington, D.C., and New York. For the rest of the world, otherwise adrift in a sea of what the French call "le m?dia anglo-saxon...
...avian flu were to develop into a pandemic as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu, it would cause about 62 million deaths worldwide, 96 percent of them in the developing world, according to a Dec. 21 report by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Queensland in Australia...
...will also begin filming a sequel to The Secret in January, for an August release; Rainone says it will explore "the next step, the next level" in the process of achieving one's life goals. Meanwhile, the original DVD is about to be distributed in Europe and Asia; German, Spanish and Portuguese translations are nearly completed, with French, Japanese and Chinese to follow...
...friends and family read Poniewozik's article. My grandparents were from Mexico. My parents were born in the U.S. and grew up in a mainly Mexican community. They were raised to be bilingual and bicultural and graduated high school at a time when they were forbidden to speak Spanish there. My dad is a Korean War veteran. My brothers and I attended college. I married a Mexican farmworker with a green card. ˇDios mio! I remember a time when we rarely saw a brown face in the media. Immigrants remain the hardworking, grateful backbone of this great country...
...away from controversy. Even so, the Indian-born businessman Lakshmi Mittal says he was taken aback by the fury that greeted his announcement in late January that he was bidding to buy European steelmaker Arcelor, formed in 2002 out of what was left of the French, Luxembourgian, Belgian and Spanish steel industries. "We really didn't expect such a violent reaction," Mittal told Time. "A lot of people were obviously not happy at all." [an error occurred while processing this directive...