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...Barbie passport, visitors can get their hair and nails done at a spa and shop for makeup, accessories and even couture. Vera Wang is on board; she designed a $15,000 human-sized Barbie wedding dress to be sold exclusively at the Shanghai store. In a sleek design center, girls can use computers to sketch out their own Barbie fashions, and on another floor they can model them by walking a runway in Barbie clothing. At night, one of the store's two restaurants becomes a hip bar, complete with karaoke, a DJ and pink martinis. Says Hayes Zhou, food...
...mostly from the U.S.--is the largest source of foreign income in Mexico. The central bank expects remittances to keep falling in 2009, thanks in part to layoffs in the U.S. construction sector; Mexico's overall GDP is also expected to shrink. A January report from the Pew Hispanic Center showed that while the same percentage of Latino immigrants is sending money home as in previous years, the amount per person is dropping. An estimated 70% sent less money in 2008 than...
...started in 1989 at Kianshahr's Badr Center in Shahre-Rey, a sprawling, mostly working-class suburb of Tehran, whose population is 30% Afghan. Iran Mokhtari, now 57, was one of the first recruits. Although she had only a primary-school education, she was taught the information that she needed to pass on in her community. Stopping at a home on her street, she rings a neighbor's doorbell. "Open up. I'm your health volunteer," she says, and instantly, the door is buzzed open. Inside, she tells 26-year-old Azizeh Mohammadi that she should come to the health...
...their home pulpit. Wolpert of Crookston's First Presbyterian entertains even more radical visions. The average age of his Sunday flock is 63 (Carol Porter is now a member). But he is also founder of the Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing, an energy-independent, nationally ambitious retreat center offering ancient disciplines such as icon and walking meditations and surrounded by a storybook hayfield with a view of the Red Lake River. Wolpert sees God's future here as extending beyond small-town churchgoers to northern Minnesota's more ethnically varied newcomers and even to religious tourists. "This...
...Power of Who: You Already Know Everyone You Need to Know By Bob Beaudine Center Street; 174 pages