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...personal fortune estimated at €5.3 billion, has come under scrutiny by Britain's Financial Services Authority, which is taking an interest in movements in the club's share price ahead of the €196 million purchase. The billionaire's spokesman says the investigation involves "pre- Roman Chelsea stuff," and that Abramovich "couldn't care less." Perhaps he should be conducting his own scrutiny of how his money has been spent since he bought the club. After airing a fantasy shopping list of new players - which included Arsenal's Thierry Henry and Patrick Viera, Juventus' Edgar Davids and Inter Milan...
...Europeans and Americans differ so much in their attitude toward work and leisure? I can think of two reasons. First, the crowded confines of Western Europe and the expansive space of North America have led to varied consumer preferences. Broadly speaking, Americans value stuff - SUVs, 7,000-sq.-ft. houses - more than they value time, while for Europeans it's the opposite. Second, as Bell predicted, America's sense of itself as a religious nation has revived. At least in the puritanical version of Christianity that has always appealed to Americans, religion comes packaged with the stern message that hard...
...cream isn't just kid stuff. More ice cream is consumed in July than at any other time of the year, and if the new flavor trends are any indication, more of this year's consumers will be adults. Tish Boyle, food editor of Chocolatier Magazine, says she is seeing a huge influx of creative and luxury ice cream. "This year the ice cream industry is expanding and transforming to fit the changing palates of ice cream consumers," she says. Get ready for flavors like Cinnamon Basil...
...song in your MP3 library, and it gets more difficult. SmartSound Movie Maestro ($50) makes it easy by automatically layering in your sound track. The basic software package offers a fair variety of styles, from Blockbuster (heavy orchestra, eerie synth) to Vacation (steel drums, Dixieland brass), but the best stuff comes from the six optional Movie Music CDs ($30 apiece). The drawback is that you're stuck with their music; the program doesn't enable you to use tracks from a personal collection. But if you want a snap-to-fit sound, this is a good match. --By Wilson Rothman
...Fixing education is as important as repairing the physical infrastructure," says Joanne Giordano of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is coordinating the purge. "Stuff that's offensive to ethnic and religious groups has got to go." --By Simon Robinson