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Doing Business 140 Part 7

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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.

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Records of the U.S. Agency for Global Media

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Video Tape Programs and Worldnet Broadcasts

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2005-01-01
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