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...licensed his name to a new suburban development, the Village at Hidden Brook, in Vallejo, California, that is being constructed to conform to the vision presented in his works. He is also a savvy businessman. His title at MAGI is simply Artistic Director and Co-Founder, but his stake in the company is about 25%. His attempt earlier this year to buy back MAGI's publicly traded shares was rebuffed by the board of directors...
...news of the mummy filtered out, other countries began to stake their claims. Tehran, believing it was ancient Persian royalty who had married an Egyptian, said it would take steps to get it back. Afghanistan's Taliban regime also claimed ownership for reasons that are unclear. But in January when Tehran finally sent a team of experts to Karachi, they left in disgust, terming the mummy a "phony without any cultural value...
...President saw this argument coming, and in his budget message tried to stake out a middle position familiar from his campaign stump speeches, rejecting the old dichotomy of Big Government vs. Small Government in favor of--well, both. He had "a new vision for governing the nation." "For too long," he said, "politics in Washington has been divided between those who wanted Big Government without regard to cost and those who wanted Small Government without regard to need." Yet Big-Government needs dominated his team's public presentations. Cabinet Secretaries rushed to the cameras to boast of increases for children...
...daily life, that gym-rat pressure is even more intense: our jobs, our marriages, our lives are at stake. Says McCall: "We know that a high percentage of the maladies that people suffer from have at least some component of stress in them, if they're not overtly caused by stress. Stress causes a rise of blood pressure, the release of catecholamines [neurotransmitters and hormones that regulate many of the body's metabolic processes]. We know that when catecholamine levels are high, there tends to be more platelet aggregation, which makes a heart attack more likely." So instead...
...state-controlled conglomerate Gazprom, but indisputably coordinated in the highest reaches of Vladimir Putin's government. Journalists at Gusinsky's daily newspaper Segodnya and the weekly magazine Itogi received their walking papers Tuesday, and at week's end the embattled entrepreneur announced plans to sell his 49.5 percent stake in NTV, the nationwide TV network he founded in October 1993 that was independent until the week before. Deliverance, Gusinsky swiftly realized, has a price. Full Story...