Word: chic
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Phuket is undergoing a makeover. New resorts in or near Thailand's capital of sun and sleaze are cleaning up the island's image, with chic, boutique properties popping up wherever you cast your sunglassed gaze. Leading the charge is Sanctuary Resorts. The Hong Kong-based, eco-conscious developer recently opened two facilities in the area...
...players, the iPod is the most stylish you can buy today, but chic competitors are just around the corner. The Rio Carbon, available in late August for $249, looks like a silver cigarette lighter with curved edges and has 5 GB of memory--1 GB more than the iPod mini for the same price. And Sony's Network Walkman, a 20-GB device with a squared-off design, goes on sale this month for $399. That's $100 more than a new 20-GB iPod, but the Sony is lighter and smaller. Sony claims that the battery lasts...
...Lagerfeld likes to say, you don't have to spend a lot of money to look good. "Chic is a kind of mayonnaise," he says. "Either it tastes, or it doesn...
...cuts back on wasteful agricultural subsidies that distort prices, the E.U. is proposing to spend €13 billion a year on rural development starting in 2007, with much of that money going to encourage farmers to diversify into agritourism and other businesses. For Europe's farmers, rural chic is more than just a vacation fad; it's a financial necessity. Farmers constitute a small percentage of the population and an even smaller percentage of the economy. The number of farmers in the E.U. has fallen by half over the past 20 years, from 12.7 million to just over 6 million...
Just now, grown-up horror is frightfully chic. The Village, which Shyamalan describes as "a Grimm fairy tale--Little Red Riding Hood, but an adult, dark version of it," creeps into theaters this week, followed by Open Water. Ju-on has opened in New York City and Los Angeles and spreads to a dozen cities next month. Soon we'll see an assault of Hollywood remakes of Japanese horror films. The Ring 2, a sequel to the 2002 Naomi Watts thriller that grossed $230 million worldwide, is being directed by Hideo Nakata, who helmed the original Japanese film version...