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Visions of Tomorrow The figure on your cover must not be able to see any real "Visions of Tomorrow" through his blue-lensed glasses [Oct. 25]. The attention given to sports, cars, gadgets and the like in your reporting on the future caters to the affluent, self-centered and ignorant among us. Instead, we should be looking at nuclear, biological and chemical weapons proliferation, AIDS, poverty, the environment and Islamist extremists. Ron Mullisen Los Osos...
...figure on your cover must not be able to see any real "Visions of Tomorrow" through his blue-lensed glasses [Oct. 11]. The attention given to sports, cars, gadgets, movies and TV in your reporting on the future caters to the affluent, self-centered, world-isolated and ignorant among us. Instead, we should be looking at nuclear-, biological- and chemical-weapons proliferation, AIDS, poverty, the environment and Islamist extremists...
...Managers call the perks a cost of doing business that's built into nightly rates, and the VIPs seem to consider it money well spent. In a recent poll, almost two-thirds of well-heeled travelers listed "being pampered" as a top priority, and an American Express survey of affluent consumers found that those who crave luxurious experiences last year spent an average of $26,400 a person on them. Brett Anderson, editorial senior vice president of the Robb Report group of luxury lifestyle publications, explains, "Wealthy people see customized services as a way to differentiate themselves...
Like The West Wing, Housewives is well made but stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters--as thin as mica flakes, especially the men--are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a cliché of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
Americans have dreamed of penetrating the elusive China market since traders began peddling opium to Chinese addicts in exchange for tea and spices in the 19th century. War and communism conspired to keep the Chinese poor and Westerners out. But with the rise of a newly affluent class and the rapid growth of the country's economy, the China market has become the fastest growing for almost any American company you can think of. Although Washington runs a huge trade deficit with Beijing, exports to China have risen 76% in the past three years. According to a survey...