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...room, Kamagi, a six-armed troll, keeps stern watch over dozens of soot-ball slaves--cute vermin, thrilled when Chihiro shows up to lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...
Kozlowski landed at Tyco in 1976, hired by legendary hostile-takeover-artist Joseph Gaziano to fix some floundering acquisitions. At the time, Tyco Laboratories was a small manufacturer of everything from undersea cables to fire sprinklers. (It is unrelated to Mattel's Tyco line of toys.) But when Kozlowski took over in 1992, he re-created Tyco in his spirited image...
...WIRED The ReefMaster Digital Land and Sea Camera is the first digital camera that works underwater. Its built-in software compensates for tricky undersea lighting conditions, and its high-tech plastic housing is waterproof to 100 ft. (a deluxe model can go to 200 ft.) With a price tag of $450, though, you'd better hope you're snapping sunken treasure. Find out more at www.sealife-cameras.com...
...also acquired mobile-phone carriers throughout Asia, and holds big stakes in emerging 3G mobile networks in Europe. Analysts say a restructured Global Crossing could be a formidable and eventually profitable competitor in the international fixed-line business. But it's uncertain when the mammoth oversupply of undersea capacity will be matched by demand...
...long been viewed with suspicion by the often insular business and government elites of the Caribbean Basin. It was just one more way, they grumbled, to get trampled by the global economy. But bold investors are finding opportunity in that angst. This year, more than 5,000 miles of undersea fiber-optic cable is being laid from Miami to the Yucatan to the Bahamas, wiring 15 countries and islands. The $450 million venture is led by a firm based in Miami and Bermuda, aptly called New World Network. "It makes sense for us precisely because the Caribbean is so underserved...