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...rights for the top Italian clubs for the next three years. Viewers watch the games by inserting a prepaid card (six matches for $22) into a digital box. Since January, the company has sold more than 1.5 million cards. The idea is catching on: the Telecom Italia-owned La7 station sells a similar card that lets viewers see smaller teams play. --By Jeff Israely/Milan
...block the view of the aluminum spaceship-themed entrance to the Fashion Show Mall across the street. "A lot of these guys will hire architects and designers to come up with ideas. Steve is the driving force in all his buildings," says Frank Fertitta III, 43, the CEO of Station Casinos and a longtime friend, one of the group of young Vegas tycoons Wynn calls his "homeboys...
...three siblings returned to Ghana where they stayed until 1974, when his father took a second posting to London. Yet another coup changed everything, leaving them permanently stranded in England. While studying politics and history at the London School of Economics, Eshun became a reporter for pirate radio station KISS FM, where his immersion in hip culture led him to freelance at The Face magazine, writing his first 100-word article in 1988 on newly fashionable Kickers shoes. After graduating, he parlayed his freelancing into a staff position and then, at 28, the editorship of Arena, The Face's sister...
...mere presence of environmentalists marks a sea change. When Beijing approved the massive Three Gorges Dam in 1992, public opposition was nearly impossible. The $24 billion hydropower station at the center of the project, now under construction, will turn the middle of the Yangtze into a lake half the length of California and force 1.5 million people to relocate. Since the dam was conceived as a monument to Communist Party power, opponents were branded as dissidents. Reforms have changed that. "The government sees activist groups as less of a threat now," says Fu Tao, of the Chinese Academy of Social...
...along the upper Salween to visit a 10-year-old dam a few hours away. The government had celebrated the Manwan Dam as a model of development for its cheap electricity and successful relocation of 3,500 people. The visitors saw something different: peasant women picking through the hydropower station's garbage dump for plastic bottles to recycle for pennies. Sobbing, the women explained that they had not found jobs after losing their land. The scene was captured in an underground documentary that environmentalists have passed hand to hand. It concludes with the visitors returning home to warn their families...