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Eduardo Castro-Wright could see the problem instantly. One of his first exercises as the newly appointed president of Division No. 1, the highfalutin internal designation for Wal-Mart's 3,500-unit domestic discount chain, was to map every underperforming store in the country. Most of the worst were clustered around big coastal cities like Boston and Los Angeles. As he toured those stores, Castro-Wright could sense they weren't connecting with their neighborhoods. And neither were the managers--they weren't in Arkansas anymore. "You'd talk to managers and they...
...William Lo, investing in a thoroughbred racehorse is comparable to buying a vintage Bordeaux. An executive for a Hong Kong-based chain of fashionable clothing stores, Lo has been dabbling in both assets for the better part of a decade, and he samples the nose of his wines with the same enthusiasm he reserves for cheering on his charger as it storms a nose ahead. But he knows there's one big difference: "At least with wine," says Lo, "there's a good chance of getting your money back...
Hong Huang, publisher, I-Look fashion magazine A good night inevitably starts with dinner at Ding Ding Xiang, a hotpot chain that gets more popular by the day. The freshly sliced lamb is a must and the price is surprisingly cheap considering the restaurant's reputation. The Dongzhimen branch of the restaurant is perpetually packed, so you'll have better luck finding a table at the newly opened branch in Shin Kong Place, tel: (86-10) 6530 5997. If you're into the cultural scene, check out what's onstage at Beijing People's Art Theatre...
...avoid getting parasites when eating in so many places around the world? -Malaika McKee-Culpepper Broomfield, Colo.It's always the breakfast buffet at the major-chain hotel that gets you. It's almost never street food. But some of our crew got subcutaneous larvae, which I thought was pretty cool. In the book we have a medical-anomalies chapter that I'm very proud...
...could face his own questions about the handling of archival material. On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune reported that associates of the former mayor arranged to have 2,100 boxes of documents from his tenure at City Hall copied and archived before they were returned to the city. The unusual chain of custody - since outlawed by New York City - raises questions about whether documents were deleted or sanitized...