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Unencumbered by the notion that they may be operating out of expropriated property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies...
Generation Tee is of particular interest to tour veteran Tom Kite, 47, who, as captain of this year's 12-man Ryder Cup team, could take as many as six of the kids to Valderrama in Spain the last week of September for the much ballyhooed match between the U.S. and Europe. "No, I don't plan to make them take naps in the afternoon, or anything like that," says Kite. "But I am trying to line up Pampers as an official Ryder Cup sponsor." Seriously, Kite says he's thrilled with the young makeup of his team...
...provide the jolt political leaders need. For the past half-century, billions of dollars have been spent by maritime nations to expand their domestic fishing fleets, subsidizing everything from fuel costs to the construction of factory trawlers. And until countries like Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and, yes, the U.S. are willing to confront this monster of their own making, attempts to control overfishing are likely to prove ineffectual. The problem, as Carl Safina, director of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, observes, is as politically intractable as it is intellectually simple: there...
...Richard Rainwater, a Fort Worth, Texas, billionaire, each invested $125,000 in a pair of struggling hospitals in El Paso, Texas. That became the seed for Columbia's present holdings of 1,062 hospitals, outpatient surgical centers and home-health-care centers in 36 states, England, Switzerland and Spain...
Sweden 83.2% Denmark 81.1 Israel 78.4 Spain 77.6 Britain 75.4 Germany 72.7 Finland 68.5 Canada 63.9 France 61.3 Japan...