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...CHANDELIERS From the more traditional Murano glass to the completely funky wineglass cluster version, above, chandeliers are suddenly everywhere, adding romance and whimsy to private homes and public spaces. One of the most innovative takes on this classic home staple is Foscarini's halogen Caboche...
...plane en route to a labor-union congress in Bordeaux, Jean-Louis Borloo leans out of his seat and jabs a finger at a cluster of suburban housing projects below. "The very design of neighborhoods like that was meant to create zones that no one exits and no one enters," barks Borloo, who as France's Employment and Social Cohesion Minister has made revamping the country's blighted banlieues a personal crusade. Borloo insists that demolishing the "invisible but impenetrable walls" separating project residents from suitable housing, functioning public services and jobs is the only way for France to avert...
Gaming is going global, and to stock markets, with a force that's making fortunes for a cluster of little-known industry outsiders and giving monstrous headaches to regulators, legislators and traditional casino companies. Poker is growing most rapidly; this year an estimated $2.7 billion will be spent on Internet poker games, almost double last year's take and 10 times that of 2002. That breakneck growth can't continue--one reason PartyGaming's stock drifted below its IPO price--but other casino games like blackjack, as well as lotteries and sports betting, are finding new homes online. According...
...outsider CEOs, Zander kept most of the existing top managers. He did get rid of the CEO's palatial executive suite, complete with private bathroom and treadmill. With so much space, "Who do I talk to?" he asks, laughing. He now sits with the other top managers in a cluster of modest glass-fronted offices. His isn't even the largest, and his secretary gets the view. Ask Motorola executives about their CEO, and they are almost as likely to tease him--about his taste for what he calls cooked sushi or his complaints about the commute to Schaumburg...
...There was a hole in the tree,” she says wistfully, “about where the heart should have been.” She angles her digital camera to display the cluster of red at its center. “So I tried replacing it with berries...