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...There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...ultra-efficient regional service center and tourist destination that benefits from the innovative yet unobtrusive hand of a benevolent leader. In Dubai that would be Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ambitious Crown Prince whose dreams for Dubai leave those of most other gulf princes in the camel age. "They have been bold, and they have been strategic," acknowledges Sheik Mohammed, but he adds, "I have achieved only 10% of my visions." Dubai turned to tourism because oil and gas represent only 17% of its GDP, and those resources are expected to run dry, or nearly, in the next...
There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...still a face made for acting--all punctuation marks, from those pointy circumflex eyebrows to the profound parentheses on either side of his mouth. Lounging in his favorite suite at a New York City hotel, Nicholson sits in an armchair and drinks coffee and smokes Camel Lights. After a weekend of interviews, his lilting, comforting-yet-unnerving voice is shot to the point that it's just a husky growl, but Nicholson is a talker, and when he wants to talk, by God, he's going to talk...
PEGGY YU Beijing Bookseller Whenever the co-president of Dangdang.com China's largest online bookseller, travels to the U.S., friends pile on requests for American tomes. "I'm tired of being a camel," says Yu, 38, a native of Sichuan province, in southwestern China. So she is negotiating with American publishers to sell their books on Dangdang. Yu says Chinese readers are particularly fond of architecture and design books. The four-year-old company has continued its triple-digit sales growth and this year produced positive cash flow...