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...chances are that it conjures up visions of soldiers and barbed wire. As the South Korean city closest to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the South from communist North Korea, Paju has long lived beneath a cloud of military tension. Now, a nearby cultural venture known as Heyri Art Valley (heyri.net) is trying to change that image by establishing the area as a mecca of arts tourism...
...evolved to embrace the whole gamut of the arts since its reinvention began in 2001. Today, more than 70 artists, musicians, writers and cineasts?including director Park Chan Wook, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix 2004 for his film Old Boy?have settled in the 500,000-sq-m valley, 40 minutes north of Seoul. The community is still a work in progress (60 buildings have been completed and 20 are under construction), but tourists will find plenty to see, including cutting-edge architecture, cinemas, caf?s, galleries and craft shops. More important, it's a blissful change from the heavy...
...placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector for one of the bodies, which he has described as the Australian equivalent of the pharaonic mummies from Egypt's Valley of the Kings...
That may sound like a simple enough statement, but it represents a profound revolution in the way the Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker--long the powerhouse of Silicon Valley--does business. Forty years ago this April, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that given advances in transistor miniaturization, computer processors should double in speed every 18 months. Not only did Moore's law become the most trustworthy truism in technology, it was also the rock on which all Intel marketing was founded. Why did you need a PC with an Intel Pentium II processor? Because it was four times as fast...
...unlike PC manufacturers and retailers, who have to deal with wafer-thin margins, Intel--thanks to its dominant position--enjoys a 55% profit margin on every $300 PC chip. "Most companies would kill to get margins like that," says Nathan Brockwood, senior analyst for Insight 64, a Silicon Valley research firm...