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...company will pay $100 million over 20 years for the rights to Houston's home, even though Yao has only three years remaining on his Rockets contract. "Attaching a personality to a car can generate interest," says Alexander Edwards of Strategic Vision, an auto consultancy, "but it alone rarely increases sales." Houston stadiums have had some bad karma too. Reliant Energy bought naming rights to the NFL's Houston Texans stadium three years ago. The company, now called CenterPoint Energy, has seen its stock drop 70% since the deal. Remember Enron Field, home of baseball's Houston Astros? The team...
...speakers in milliseconds. Retailers can now play soothing music or sales pitches to lure you into their stores. Britain's largest department-store group, John Lewis Partnership, tested Whispering Windows at its Peter Jones shop in London, and sales shot up 40% over a three-week period. Bars and auto dealerships are using it in the U.S. The system costs $1,500, and for those who want to hear Moby in the mirror, a $20 version called Soundbug let's you play CDs and MP3s through the glass...
...Photoshop Album 2.0 ($50) makes it easier to keep digital pictures in order. First it locates them all--even if they are scattered in various folders on your PC. The Calendar View setting enables you to find photos by month, year or day they were saved. And the Auto Fix feature enables you to adjust the color and brightness of an entire group of pictures with a single click. --By Anita Hamilton
...blue guy worked at the amusement park too, in a freak show, and as a young boy Eddie inadvertently caused an auto accident that killed him. "There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man explains. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth." His theme, and Albom's, is the interconnectedness of all our lives, and the impossibility of knowing the consequences of our actions in the grand scheme of things...
There is at least one outfit trying to reverse the sport's direction. Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC), a spin-off of Canadian auto-parts maker Magna International, has spent about $1 billion to buy 12 U.S. tracks over the past five years, including Pimlico and Bay Meadows. The company may also bid for the scandal-plagued New York Racing Association's tracks, which include Saratoga and Belmont Park. "I love horses, but I just got bored going to the racetrack," says Frank Stronach, Magna's chairman, who became one of the world's top breeders while he was making billions...