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...Adidas Company, based in Germany, will run the store through its American branch...
...Dutchman eventually tracked down his marmosets to a black-water branch of the Amazon, 200 miles southeast of Manaus. A farmer pointed toward the edge of the forest, where five marmosets happily snacked on the resin of a morototo tree. On later visits, Van Roosmalen noticed that the soil of this farm was 3 1/2 ft. deep and richer than any he knew of in the Amazon, where the earth is sandy and gives out after a couple of years, forcing farmers to raze hundreds of square miles of rain forest every year...
Inside the rain forest, Van Roosmalen is an ethereal presence with his long, silvery-blond hair. He ghosts through the foliage, hardly stirring a leaf. There's the sudden drum of raindrops shaken off a tree high in the canopy, and Van Roosmalen trains his binoculars upward. A branch bounces, and out pops a Titi monkey with black, globed eyes and a pewter-colored beard. "It's a new species we just identified recently," he says excitedly...
...theyid pay me if I wandered around the square asking pretty girls if they wanted to work with me in Abercrombie,i Hopps says. iThey even went so far to ask me to bring in my teammates. I didnit do it though. I would have felt sleazy.i The Chicago branch of the Abercrombie conglomerate doesnit share Hoppsis inhibitions. A manager there went so far as to pluck a student right out of his dorm room...
...behind the scheme have a lot to with how the game plays out. Each store will inevitably differ from the next. Although Abercrombie has a home base located in Columbus, Ohio, each manager has a different game plan. Jones, who forged a friendship with the manager of his Chicago branch, gained an inside perspective on her unique approach...