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...snazzy decor in her brightly colored crib. Launched in Finland in 2000 by two university students, Habbo Hotel now has 2.2 million monthly visitors worldwide, according to the site. The U.K. version, at habbohotel.co.uk, opened in February 2001 and has 11.5 million users. Other big sites include Spain's with 1.4 million users, and Finland's has 2.8 million. The U.S. version, at habbohotel.com, just opened in September and already has about 300,000 registered users...
...snazzy decor in her brightly colored crib. Launched in Finland in 2000 by two university students, Habbo Hotel now has 2.2 million monthly visitors worldwide, according to the site. The U.K. version, at habbohotel.co.uk, opened in February 2001 and has 11.5 million users. Other big sites include Spain's with 1.4 million users, and Finland's has 2.8 million. The U.S. version, at habbohotel.com, just opened in September and already has about 300,000 registered users. Virtual worlds have been around for years. Even the best-selling Sims computer game has an online version in which people create characters, build...
...Thus mergers have proliferated: Luxembourg-based Arcelor, currently the world's largest steel producer, was formed in 2002 through the merger of steel companies in Luxembourg, Spain and France. Corus emerged from the 1999 union of British Steel and Dutch firm Hoogovens. In order for steelmakers to wield sufficient clout, notes Tommy Trask, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, steel "needs to be as consolidated as the iron-ore suppliers or the end customers." Both Mittal and Wilbur Ross, the former investment banker and distressed investment specialist who helped create ISG, envisage a future where steel is dominated...
...Mandelson's call was ignored, as were the many other entreaties from member states, including Spain and Germany. Those Socialist-led governments, while never enamored of Barroso, would have much preferred to dodge a bothersome train wreck over the new Commission. But Buttiglione's comments about gays and women, and the fact that he had been nominated by Berlusconi, amounted to a cause that Greens, Socialists and a majority of Liberals were willing to go to the mat for. "This week was the birth of a truly European Socialist faction," said Martin Schulz, the German leader of the Socialist group...
...even more so than the huge show mounted two years ago by the Royal Academy in London, which was co-curated by Solís and inspired this one. The exhibition will run through Feb. 13, 2005, and in March will move on to the Guggenheim's branch in Bilbao, Spain...