Meet Ted Turner
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Media magnate Turner is a visionary and risk-taker who singlehandedly changed the landscape of television broadcasting through Cable News Network, the TV news channel which he founded. America's 26th richest man, he is famous for being impulsive, probably a sad remnant of a troubled childhood.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1998
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Paradise revealed
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The influential Agnelli clan have used the Villar Perosa as a family retreat house since the early 19th century. The property, redesigned and refined by Marella Agnelli, features a 25-acre landscape filled with orangery, rosebeds, yew trees, and a lake garden.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1998
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Paradise squandered
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Nauru Island became wealthy when its rich phosphate mines were nationalized in 1968, but the phosphate is almost depleted and the wealth has ruined the island paradise. The government squandered the money. Human and environmental health have declined.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1997
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