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Spaceman Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson has been even busier than usual. After wading into the U.S. online music market last week with Virgin Digital, Branson hailed plans for an early 2005 launch of Virgin Nigeria, an airline for which his Virgin Atlantic carrier will pay $24.5 million for a 49% share. He also found time to christen Virgin Galactic, the world's first space-tourism operator, whose...
...V.S.S. Enterprise (yes, that's right), expects to boldly launch its first passengers into suborbit in 2007 - at around $190,000 each. Virgin will pay up to $21.5 million to license the U.S. technology, investing around $100 million in spaceships and infrastructure. "It would be a waste to sit on the beach all day," Branson told TIME. "I get my pleasure creating things other people can be proud of." But it's not all smooth sailing: shares in U.K. cell-phone operator Virgin Mobile dipped below their July offer price; and at the rollout of Virgin Trains' latest high-speed...
...teacher at Kaplan Educational Services in Chicago, says her early entry into a South Side elementary school, at age 4, as well as a subsequent grade skip, hindered her upbringing. "I was so much younger than my peers," says Carr. "In high school, I was teased about being a virgin. Soon, I wanted to do the things my friends were doing, even though I was younger." As a teen, Carr started drinking with older classmates. Now she realizes that although she was "book smart," she lacked the maturity to be in high school...
...criminal probe in Britain, where under the Public Order Act, it is unlawful to use threatening words to incite violence. "This is the first investigation of its kind," says Detective Clive Driscoll of London's Metropolitan Police. So far, activists haven't targeted the artist's main record label, Virgin Records. A spokesman for Virgin says the offending songs were released by an unaffiliated label...
...Northwest Airlines, has the kind that lies at an angle, with the foot below the head, rather than perfectly flat. In a recent survey by Skytrax, a British firm that tracks travel trends, only three carriers received the top rating for their business-class seat-beds: South African, Virgin and British Airways. --By Sally B. Donnelly