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...Shaq spot is part of a boom in time-travel ads: luxury-car maker Mercedes-Benz has an ad with a cruising SL500, showing the evolution of the SL class through the decades; Pepsi also unveiled a similar Britney Spears ad during the Super Bowl. Ad experts say consumers like the idea of products that weather the times--it's the exception to the advertising rule that associates old with bad. In the post-9/11 era, that sentiment is growing stronger. "You're buying the same thing that someone bought in the '50s and '60s," says Breck Eisner...
...really an overgrown toddler who still thinks the world revolves around it. Elephants know a great deal about a great many things, says Bing, but nothing about human feelings. Especially yours, the faithful retainer. So listen to the wisdom and the many jokes of Buddha Bing (ba-da-boom!), and always, always, "be two drinks behind the elephant...
...quintessentially Russian, much of the Kremlin was constructed or laid out by Italian builders at the end of the 15th century. After your tour, walk across Red Square to the massive gum shopping center, one of the many self-confident edifices built during the last Rus-sian economic boom - at the beginning of the 20th century. In Soviet times a slightly furtive place, it now offers a crash course in the lifestyles of the "new Russians." Wander down the trading row nearest Red Square, past Kenzo and Boss, perhaps have lunch in Bosco (see box). Then get out fast...
Poor economic recovery - it just can't seem to stay on Wall Street's mind. First it was Enronitis. Then it was a lack of pent-up consumer demand. And now, just when it seemed economists and investors had decided that the road back to boom times might well be steep and swift, the markets have caught jihaditis...
...surge in foundation giving—even in the face of an economic downturn—was made possible by a doubling of total foundation assets during the economic boom years between 1996 and 2000. Those good years carried over despite the recession, said the study’s author, Ann E. Kaplan...