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...Ghosn, who was born in Brazil to Lebanese parents (and speaks six languages), enjoys rock star popularity in Japan for turning the flailing company around nearly a decade ago. But not even a champion CEO is safe from the current crisis, which he calls "unchartered territory" that could stretch anywhere from six months to three years. (See the history of the electric...
...also improved both the horsepower and the fuel economy on both the V8 and V6 versions. While the final numbers aren't available yet from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ford is expecting that the V6 version will get a "best-in-class," 26-miles per gallon. The "Five-Star" crash rating is also unchanged. "You can be riding in a $1.8 million Bugatti and you won't get any better protection," says Randle. The 2010 Mustang will also come with a completely new suspension based on the one used in the special "Bullitt" edition Ford put on the road...
...reproductive health to be published in 2009 will include a chapter devoted entirely to female genital plastic surgery. The media have been doing their part to get the word out too. Post-op patients regularly extol their newly improved sex lives in women's magazines. Dr. Robert Rey, star of E!'s Dr. 90210, is big on vaginoplasty, and this fall NBC's Lipstick Jungle featured an episode about G-spot enhancement (via collagen injection...
...rignon is set to flow as international revelers from Robert De Niro and Jean Paul Gaultier to Bollywood star Bipasha Basu gather to celebrate the grand opening of the Atlantis, a $1.5 billion, 1,500-room hotel resort that is over-the-top even by Dubai's standards. A branch of Kerzner's landmark resort in the Bahamas, the Atlantis features opulent rooms from $450 to $35,000 a night; restaurants by star chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang; a giant aquarium containing 65,000 marine animals; and the Middle East's biggest theme park with...
...Johannesburg, and was an amateur boxer before becoming a chartered accountant. He decided to go into the inn-keeping business after his parents bought a modest hotel in the coastal resort of Durban. Still in his 20s, he built the Beverly Hills Hotel, the country's first five-star accommodation. In partnership with South African Breweries, he eventually accumulated 30 hotels stretching from Cape Town across to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius...