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Nothing is better for health-club profits than scores of people still high on the holidays promising that this year will be different. It's even better for the gym's upkeep costs when those people's motivation invariably dies. Well, this year maybe, just maybe, a slew of newfangled workouts and classes will help them keep at it, losing pounds, for once, instead of interest...
...hopes, experts warn. "Distribution, storage, content management, delivery of the content in a safe way - all of that is far more costly than you would assume," says Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, an economist for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Cinemas that are used to spending minimal amounts on upkeep - fixing a belt here, replacing a bulb there - may have to pay more for service and upgrades. Such issues may slow the revolution, but they won't stop it. Industry bosses say they won't give up on the promise of a brighter, faster, cheaper future. So sooner or later...
...Minister Renuka Chowdhury has vowed to clean up India's 26 World Heritage Sites and exploit their business potential so that they pay for themselves. Tourism Joint Secretary Amitabh Kant is perhaps the only person in India more outspoken than Thakur about heritage. "Encroachments have been terrible," he says. "Upkeep is awful." To a great extent, he blames Indian officials for what he calls a "total lack of civic governance and discipline." In a plan that delights Thakur, Kant says all shops, hotels and stalls built on historic sites will be demolished and their successors kept at least...
...must know the story: saintly, poverty-stricken Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) and his family live hard by the Wonka works, the day-to-day upkeep of which Willy (Johnny Depp) has turned over to the Oompa-Loompas. He hides five golden tickets in his candy bars, the finders of which are entitled to visit his factory. Besides Charlie, the lucky--ultimately unlucky--winners include a glutton, an overachiever, a video-game addict and a spoiled rich kid, all of whom get sadistic comeuppances from Willy that will perhaps disturb parents more than they will their offspring, since kids have...
...expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find a permanent use. Maintenance and upkeep are estimated at about $100 million a year. "Who knows what they're planning to do with this," huffs a soldier guarding the main entrance to the Helliniko complex. Flyblown, empty arenas are not the only legacy of Athens' binge. There's the financial cost, too. The government spent...