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...Zimmer takes the stage before an audience of assistant store managers in their 20s and more seasoned store execs, he rattles off the usual list of company accomplishments--the stock had zoomed from $11.95 in January to $27 by August--and generates considerable applause. Then Zimmer veers off in a direction that would make many shareholders squirm, as he explains his unorthodox business philosophy. "You know, at some point we can't pay you enough money to make you want to go to work," Zimmer says, his voice getting quiet. "That's why we have a different feeling...
...hottest product on South Korea's biggest TV shopping channel is not the latest kimchi fridge or camera phone. It's a do-it-yourself kit for Koreans wanting to emigrate to Canada. More than half of Koreans in their 20s and a third of thirtysomethings say they want out, according to a recent Gallup poll. That might sound strange for a country whose rapid economic development has made it a model for other Asian nations. But it says a lot about the despair of Koreans, who face a sagging economy, a seething nuclear crisis across the border, rancorous local...
...lights and DVD sales. While I didn’t always have money for dinner, I was sure to buy such necessities as Coldplay albums and “urban fiction” novels (The Devil Wears Prada being a particular summer favorite). Penned by career women in their 20s and 30s, urban fiction often had its own shelf in bookstores, which quickly became my first destination...
...comes down to us as El Greco--"the Greek"--because he was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete. At the time, 1541, the island was a colony of Venice, but one that looked east in artistic matters to the traditions of the Byzantine. By his 20s he was already a recognized local practitioner of the religious-icon style. His gifts and ambition eventually took him to Venice, where his art was transformed by the twisting energies and sensual palettes of Titian and Tintoretto, all of which he turned to his own purposes. In The Purification of the Temple, a scene that...
...different country every few years, including the U.S. and Russia. "I'm very different from women in Senegal but also very different from European women," she says. Her hybrid identity didn't always sit easy, and was something she only began to resolve when she was in her 20s. Today, it's an advantage. "I think that's why it's so easy for me to move from one country to the next. On the positive side, I'm very adaptable to change...