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...turn the heat up on Sony and speed her exit. Both sides insist that it is "not true" that the dispute caused Carey's release, but it certainly didn't hurt. Despite owing Sony another album, Carey was granted her freedom--and promptly signed a megadeal with competitor Virgin...
...because this town of 200,000 is really a market for more than 1 million people. Right up the highway from the big downtown bridge, the store is often a first stop for visiting Mexicans. Inside, you can find Fabuloso detergent, table runners decorated with images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and CDs featuring popular Norteno and Tejano stars. The biggest selling items are aluminum foil, toilet-bowl cleaner and three-packs of paper towels. Store manager Ed Garza says traffic in the store picks up as midnight approaches: "People like to shop when it's cooler...
...Lucie Blackman, wearing high heels and a silver and black ensemble coordinated to match her Samsonite luggage, disembarked from a 13-hour Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Tokyo and stepped into Japan's national nightmare. A former British Airways stewardess who prided herself on being, "chic, sophisticated and smart," Lucie sometimes did her hair even before going to the gym for a workout. So it made sense she would have her hair freshly coiffed now, the natural blond mane cut straight and falling across her striking, almost patrician English features like a curtain of glass beads. Concealing her blue...
...also helped that the Blackmans worked every possible angle in pushing their investigation. A friend of Tim's who had once worked as an airport limo driver in London had given several rides to Sir Richard Branson, legendary founder of Virgin Enterprises. The driver phoned Sir Richard's office and, a few days later, Virgin offered to help the Blackmans open a Tokyo office for their investigation...
Though Leahy denies the figure, launch customers such as Singapore Airlines, Virgin and Qantas are reportedly buying the A380 for as much as 40% off the original list price of $235 million--compared with $215 million for the biggest version of the 747. To recoup the $10.7 billion it will expend to birth the A380, Airbus must sell 250 of them in five years. "The company has an awful lot of eggs in that basket," says Paul Nisbet, an industry analyst at JSA Research in Newport, R.I. "The A380 will live or die on its own sales...