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Last month, executives of Richard Branson's Virgin companies rode a dingy and slightly delayed rail car-not, as it happened, one of Sir Richard's-up to England's East Midlands to unveil the first of a new line of super-fast tilting trains. The jet-shaped thing only crawled along a test track, but it would have been a beautiful sight for any boy who loves trains...
...grown man, for that matter. Virgin group director Will Whitehorn sprang up to one of the coaches and pressed his face to the shiny aluminum skin. He later told Branson: "You're going to wet yourself when you see it." If Britain's dodgy railroad tracks were only up to the task, the train could hit 225 km/h. Even as it is, it should cut the trip between London and Manchester to two hours, down from two hours and 40 minutes, when it joins the fleet in 2002, Whitehorn says. But the train has one other, perhaps more urgent, mission...
...anything, there's too much of a menagerie out there: more than 50 cute 'n' friendly file-sharing services. And Napster's (original) headphone-clad cat looms so large that if you shut the service down, you are effectively sending users from a Virgin Megastore the size of Manhattan into dozens of poky vinyl-enthusiast stores that have no way of communicating with one another. Even though Gnutella clones (like Gnotella and Gnucleus) share the same networks, the technology still segregates users into temporary 10,000-person groups. And those users can forget about sharing with the geeks over...
...record industry has contracted down into five major conglomerates, those leaving the Grammy ceremonies to party have to choose which of the five bashes are most likely to yield good food, easy bar access, high star attendance and the best post-awards dish. I opted for the EMI-Virgin party held in downtown L.A.'s historic Hotel Figueroa and the Warner/Elektra/Atlantic party across the way at the L.A. Center Studios...
...first hit, Oh Carolina, produced on a small indie label, won him a contract with Virgin Records. But after five years he was pink-slipped. "I fell in the cracks there," says Shaggy, now 32. "They saw me as a guy bringing them a couple of hits, not somebody building a career." It wasn't that he was slacking; his 1995 album, Boombastic--filled with thudding hip-hop style grooves--sold well and won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. But when his follow-up, the saccharine Midnite Lover, flopped, Shaggy went label-less for nearly three years until...