Doing Business 140 Part 6

Description

The agency provided description reads as follows: This series contains stories about US products and services available around the world. This episode's topics include: student market (2:43): the largest music labels and Hollywood studios are backing a new generation of legal downloading services that are being offered to students on campuses. They see it as a way to market their product to young adults while steering them away from piracy. Retro cell phones (3:56): retro cell phones are in style. A company, "Retrofone", refurbishes and sells personalized Mobil phones. Segway tours (2:20): the Segway human transporter is the newest and a fun way to run around town. Washington DC introduces city tours on Segway's. Shangri-La (3:58): the idealistic place in the Himalayas, described in the 1930s by a British author is presumably hidden in China; at least two Chinese towns make a claim to be the Shangri-La. An immigrant artist (3:52): an immigrant woman in her 70s, living in Australia, has created a respectable art career after she started to paint. Sierra Leone diamonds (8:42): war, blood, corruption.these are part of an often dirty business of pure diamonds. The producer of this video is Margaret G. Young.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Agency for Global Media

Series

Video Tape Programs and Worldnet Broadcasts