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TRAVEL ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE. Luxurious ocean liners have been replaced by overcrowded airplanes, and the concept of "dressing" for a journey went out the window years ago. Still, steamer style continues to flourish in the realm of luggage. Call it a backlash to overhyped technical materials or compartment overload, but classics like Louis Vuitton and Goyard have never seemed so appealing. Even popular '80s accessories brand MCM is on the brink of a major comeback, thanks to styles chockablock with steamer signatures like logos and stripes. Gucci's Boston bags, with stripes and script, transition smoothly...
Searching for an edge, many regions are applying the concept of clustering with renewed zeal. The idea of focusing a geographic area on a particular industry in order to achieve economies of scale has been kicking around since at least 1890, when the economist Alfred Marshall coined the term "industrial district" to refer to neighborhoods that contained both factories and all their workers. In the 1990s, Harvard's Porter started using the word "cluster" to get at the usefulness of companies in close proximity sharing infrastructure, ideas and employees - like high performance cars in Germany. Some predicted that a globalized...
That includes the institution that means the most in the long run. Chile directs more of its public expenditure (almost a fifth) to education and gets more of its kids through primary school (more than 90%) than any other country in the region save Cuba. Investing in people--a concept too long ignored in Latin America--is what makes economies competitive. That's as basic...
...What do you mean by this concept of invincibility," asked an onlooker from the audience, made up mainly of film students with a smattering of meditation devotees. "An invincible Germany is a Germany that's invincible," replied a Delphic Schiffgens, who was dressed in a long white robe and gold crown. "Adolf Hitler wanted that too!," shouted out one man. "Yes," countered Schiffgens. "But unfortunately he didn't succeed." At that the crowd began shouting epithets at the speaker: "You are a charlatan! This is bad theater!" Lynch, who does not speak German, looked on in incomprehension...
...hill is made up of some 12 million cubic meters of rubble cleared away after Berlin was destroyed in World War II; the site was later used as a U.S. listening post during the Cold War. Lynch and Schiffgens are followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who founded the concept of transcendental meditation. Schiffgens says that with Lynch's help he plans to build a gleaming new "university" on Teufelsberg in order to provide "knowledge to students but also give them the chance to be enlightened." The university would form part of a network of similar institutions in Austria, France...