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...lounge on top of the Anantara Hotel, bali.anantara.com, is "more Miami Beach than Bali," says regular Agatha Simanjuntak. And some of the biggest DJs in the business have been manning the decks. "Roofs have a great vibe because you have the stars," says José Padilla of Café Del Mar fame, the DJ on the lounge's opening night. "When you have stars, people like to lose themselves...
...Leith's focal point is the Shore: a café-studded quayside leading past a series of tranquil canals fed by the Firth of Forth. Overlooking this estuary is Leith's hippest address, the Malmaison Hotel, www.malmaison-edinburgh.com. It offers 100 individually designed rooms and a brasserie packed with Edinburgh's fashionable crowd...
...Away from the Shore, Leith is perhaps best known for the Sir Terence Conran-designed Ocean Terminal, www.oceanterminal.com. This sprawling three-story shopping mall features all the usual big-box stores but also a handful of cafés, bars and restaurants with floor-to-ceiling views onto the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk. Moored outside, the spotless vessel, with its gleaming engine room (but surprisingly modest royal apartments) is now a museum, harking back to an earlier age of travel and empire. But Leith doesn't worry too much about the past these days. It's pulling away from...
...they are run. Even before that, Levi Strauss was moving away from its old monitoring system, taking what Kobori calls "a more anthropological, fieldwork" approach to gathering information. Rather than merely interviewing managers, or speaking with employees inside the factory, monitors would seek out workers at bus stops and cafés. The approach uncovered information on sensitive issues such as sexual harassment that standard audits would typically have missed...
...Iran, you either have to make it all the way to the top or get exterminated - the necessary layers in the middle are completely missing," explains Sadighi in a Bohemian café in downtown Tehran, where Hafta has started a program to promote a different musician every week. "In other countries you have clubs, restaurants, smaller concert venues, subway stations, and a lot of other spaces where you can be face-to-face with people. Our artists don't have that space...