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'Crouching Tiger' composer to set mood for medals
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BEIJING The Oscar-winning com-poser whose Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon soundtrack awed cinema audiences across the West is providing the mood music at the Olympics medal ceremonies in Beijing. Composer Tan Dun blended a historic recording of sacred bronze "chime bells" from an ancient Chinese tomb |
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Cut emissions now or pay, says UK
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MONTERREY, MEXICO BRITAIN told the world's worst polluting nations on October 3 that acting now to cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases would be vastly cheaper in the long run than doing nothing. British government scientist and former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern told a meeting |
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French Alcatel says Q1 mobile sales slow, still to meet forecast
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PARIS (Reuters) - French telecoms equipment maker Alcatel warned yesterday that mobile handset sales slowed in the last two months, but maintained earlier forecasts for first-quarter and full-year turnover in telecoms this year. A spokeswoman for Alcatel - which makes only seven percent of turnover from |
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