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...Growth in college and grad-school enrollment among minorities in the U.S. from 1993 to 2003--the most recent year for which data are available--due largely to the Hispanic population boom...
...impulse to create such groups reflects a reflex to preserve someone’s memory virtually. With the boom of social networking sites, the deaths of a number of their users have forced many to translate their mourning into the language of cyberspace. Because Facebook gives one an online existence, users must now account for their virtual loss...
...bundled together in a plastic sleeve, is the usual Cosmo fare - "7 Sex Styles Cosmo Girls Must Try"; "The New Anatomy of Infidelity"; "Accessory Alert!" - as well as 500 pages of advertising, equivalent to about three months worth of ads in a normal-thickness Cosmo >. "There's a real boom in terms of newer products coming into India," says Sekhri. "Beauty companies like L'Or?al or Revlon used to sell into two segments; now it's 10 or more, and they're launching new products all the time. An Indian woman used to use a moisturizer; now she's using...
...percentage of Indian women who can afford moisturizer, toner and sun bleach. But with a population of 1.1 billion, even a small percentage adds up to a lot of people. And that number is growing every year, which is why, Sekhri says, "it's only the start of the boom." If you tally up turnover in the television, radio, publishing, film, music and advertising industries, India's media market is currently worth some $8 billion a year. But PricewaterhouseCoopers reckons that will grow to $19 billion in the next five years. Oh, and then there's the demographics...
...Samoan slapstick of Sione's Wedding to the Polynesian hip-hop of the cult animated TV series bro'Town, a distinctly Pacific flavor is adding warmth and a sense of humor to New Zealand screen culture. "I feel like we're in the middle of a real cultural boom," says No. 2's novice director Toa Fraser, whose father hails from the Fijian gold-mining town of Vatukoula...