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...result of fire, drought, floods, overgrazing, overtilling and other factors. Such degradation can be irreversible. As industry, tourism and farming place greater stress on coastal areas in particular - and groundwater levels decline - "water wars" are becoming internal. Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards recently took to the streets of Madrid and Barcelona to protest government plans to divert the country's largest river, the Ebro, to supply water to the southeast. Marcelino Iglesias, president of the regional government in northeastern Aragón, through which the Ebro flows, has denounced the plan as "aiming at an absolutely unsustainable model of development...
...face it. The Kansas City Wizards and the New England Revolution would have a hard time defeating Real Madrid of Spain or Manchester United of England...
Last Wednesday was deliverance day for Vladimir Gusinsky. When a Madrid court turned down Russia's request to extradite the 48-year-old media magnate on fraud charges - ending his 10-month tussle with Kremlin prosecutors - Gusinsky savored his redemption. Fielding congratulatory calls on three phones at his villa in Sotogrande, he told one well-wisher, "This isn't the end of anything. It's the beginning...
Last Wednesday was deliverance day for Vladimir Gusinsky. When a Madrid court turned down Russia's request to extradite the 48-year-old media magnate on fraud charges - ending his 10-month tussle with Kremlin prosecutors - Gusinsky savored his redemption. Fielding congratulatory calls on three phones at his villa in Sotogrande, he told one well-wisher, "This isn't the end of anything. It's the beginning...
Think you've got a big tax bill? Consider the plight of Luis Figo. The soccer star was acquired last year by the Spanish team Real Madrid, which agreed to pay him $4 million a year and bought out his contract by paying archrival Barcelona a world record $56 million. Spanish tax authorities have not normally considered the funds for such buyouts to be income taxable to the athlete. But Barcelona--smarting from the loss of its best player--initially indicated it had received the funds from Figo rather than Real Madrid, which attracted the attention of tax officials, Spanish...