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...three years he hopes to have outposts as far as Ufa and Yekaterinburg. Such expansion outside Moscow was unthinkable even a few years ago, but it's a sign of how Russian retailing has evolved over the past decade. Some new retailers are racing to create national chain stores for the first time - an ambitious goal given Russia's vast size, the poor state of its roads and railways and the complexity of dealing with local bureaucrats. In sectors ranging from pharmacies to DIY stores, recognizable brand names are starting to emerge. Euroset, a seller of mobile phones...
...jail cell last year after being arrested for alleged extortion), but these days cranes rather than guns are a more apt symbol of Yekaterinburg. Office and apartment blocks are springing up. There's an Egyptian-themed bowling alley, a Scottish pub where the barmen wear kilts, a chain of eight fast-food restaurants called McPeak (which McDonald's considered buying), countless sushi bars and a huge German cash-and-carry hypermarket near the airport. "It used to be hard to get credit, but now banks are lining up to lend to us," says Leonid Bazerov, who built a shopping mall...
...interviews with many of the faithful of Opus Dei, who did not hide their membership but on the contrary made an effort to answer all questions, including some of a very personal nature. The photos of the discipline [a small whip] and the cilice [a chain] presented them in such a way that readers might not know whether they were looking at instruments of torture or a means of Christian penance that could fit in the palm of one's hand. Their use is healthier and less painful than having an ear pierced or getting a tattoo. Those means...
...first place in the 2005 Harvard Entrepreneurial Contest, sponsored by Harvard Student Agencies. To earn the Peltier prize, LONO beat out other projects that made it to the final round including a touch-screen for placing restaurant orders, a personal safety alarm in the form of a wireless key-chain, and a device that allows electronic textbook downloading...
...friendly legislation, however, this cultural phenomenon has overstepped its place. Typically, dietary regulation is justified either for public health concerns or on account of the would-be-meal’s danger of extinction. As to the former, it is true that animals higher up the food chain are more hazardous to eat—since they tend to ingest and accumulate more chemicals—but dog meat is no more dangerous than shellfish and hardly merits its own special ban. And as for the latter, as any Parisian will tell you, the world’s dog population...