International Business News - REU http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The LPGA Tour has become the latest pro sports organization to feel the crunch of the global economic downturn. Even while insisting next year will be "solidly profitable," the LPGA Tour announced Wednesday that it will offer three fewer tournaments in 2009 than this year, all because of sponsorship loss. Prize money also will dip by about $5 million. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/lpga-offers-31-tourneys-in-09-down-from-34.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:38:47 EST Who saw J.R.? A weekend event organized to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Dallas" has created a drama worthy of the Ewing family itself after angry fans complained they didn't get the access to cast members they'd ponied up for--while others got close to the stars without paying for the privilege. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/172831-dallas-reunion.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081111/confusion-at-dallas-reunion-rankles-fans.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081111/confusion-at-dallas-reunion-rankles-fans.htm Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:11:37 EST Who saw J.R.? A weekend event organized to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Dallas" has created a drama worthy of the Ewing family itself after angry fans complained they didn't get the access to cast members they'd ponied up for--while others got close to the stars without paying for the privilege. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/172673-dallas-reunion.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/confusion-at-dallas-reunion-rankles-fans.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/confusion-at-dallas-reunion-rankles-fans.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:34:14 EST Larry Hagman was reluctant to be on a new TV show called "Dallas" when he first read the script in the late 1970s, figuring there wouldn't be any money in it. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/149965-dallas-reunion.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081011/larry-hagman-excited-about-30th-dallas-reunion.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081011/larry-hagman-excited-about-30th-dallas-reunion.htm Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:53:07 EDT Larry Hagman was reluctant to be on a new TV show called "Dallas" when he first read the script in the late 1970s, figuring there wouldn't be any money in it. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/larry-hagman-excited-about-30th-dallas-reunion.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:19:55 EDT Ben Folds Five's concert Thursday is due to be part reunion, part farewell. Reunion in that the show will be the first time the trio has played together in nearly 10 years. And farewell in that back then, when they disbanded in October 2000 after opening for Weever, even the band members weren't aware it would be their final performance. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/133494-ben-folds-five.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/one-more-time-around-for-ben-folds-five.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/one-more-time-around-for-ben-folds-five.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:05:15 EDT Plans are under way for a $95 million retirement community for veterans of the country music industry. Officials announced the project Tuesday and said it will be built in the Westhaven subdivision of Franklin. It is to be called The Crescendo at Westhaven. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/music-group-launches-retirement-community.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:39:13 EDT Here comes Madea, a few months early. Theaters showing Tyler Perry's "The Family That Preys," which opens Friday, will show a sneak peek of the third installment of his popular Madea movies, "Madea Goes to Jail." The movie isn't due out until Feb. 20, 2009. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/126007-film-madea-peek.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/madea-comes-to-theaters-early.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/madea-comes-to-theaters-early.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:28:49 EDT A Taiwanese fisherman who claimed to have been stranded on an Indian Ocean island for 27 years turned out to be a convicted killer and sex offender instead of a skillful survivor, a Taiwanese newspaper reported Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/taiwan-hero-said-to-have-sordid-past-in-reunion.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:14:45 EDT Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968. Instead, he and his shipmates became pawns in a Cold War sideshow when North Korea captured the Navy spy ship and imprisoned its 82 crew members. Some still suffer the physical effects of torture or malnutrition they suffered in 11 months of captivity. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/40-years-after-capture-uss-pueblo-crew-reunites.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:52:41 EDT This is the "Pretzel City," thanks to German bakers who settled here in the 1850s. It's appropriate, given the way a lightweight named Abraham Lincoln twisted up a political colossus here and began cementing his place in American myth. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/111339-lincoln-douglas-debates.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080818/illinois-to-re-enact-lincoln-douglas-debates.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080818/illinois-to-re-enact-lincoln-douglas-debates.htm Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:50:07 EDT J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a "Dallas" reunion party. Cast members of the popular prime-time soap opera that ran from 1978-91 will return to the Southfork Ranch north of Dallas on Nov. 8 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show. Several key actors, including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, have confirmed they will attend. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/108931-tv-dallas-reunion.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/cast-members-returning-for-30th-dallas-reunion.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/cast-members-returning-for-30th-dallas-reunion.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:33:29 EDT J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a "Dallas" reunion party. Cast members of the popular prime-time soap opera that ran from 1978-91 will return to the Southfork Ranch north of Dallas on Nov. 8 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show. Several key actors, including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, have confirmed they will attend. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/108563-tv-dallas-reunion.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/cast-members-returning-for-30th-dallas-reunion.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/cast-members-returning-for-30th-dallas-reunion.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:10 EDT For one old China hand, the Beijing Olympics are a special homecoming. Oh, and his son--the leader of the free world--thinks it's pretty cool to be here with him. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/105259-beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony-bush.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080808/trip-notebook-beijing-a-bush-family-homecoming.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080808/trip-notebook-beijing-a-bush-family-homecoming.htm Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:14:27 EDT Despite the astonishing success of the stage musical "Mamma Mia!," ABBA has ruled out any reunion tour. Songwriters Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of the Swedish pop quartet told Britain's Sunday Telegraph that ABBA will never perform together again. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/87365-music-abba-no-reunion.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/benny-and-bjorn-no-abba-reunion.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/benny-and-bjorn-no-abba-reunion.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:55:13 EDT Seventeen weeks premature, our twin sons were so small, so fragile. And already they'd been through so much. Josh had had heart surgery, Jake a life-threatening bowel operation--and that was just in their first week. They'd received blood transfusions, endured endless medical exams and procedures. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/72472-birth-weight.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080615/born-too-soon-can-tiny-fighters-make-it-home.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080615/born-too-soon-can-tiny-fighters-make-it-home.htm Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:25:29 EDT A Holocaust survivor who lives in Philadelphia is preparing for a reunion with a brother she hasn't seen in 66 years. Irene Famulak (FAM'-yoo-lak) was 17 and had six siblings when the Nazis invaded their home in Ukraine in 1942. She was taken to a concentration camp and never saw another family member again. But that's about to change. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/pa-woman-brother-separated-by-nazis-to-reconnect.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 08:37:25 EDT