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...apparel business. There are no clearance sales of Prada clothes; they can be hard to find at full price. The firm, run by Miuccia and her entrepreneur husband Patrizio Bertelli, has been cautious about expansion, but in the next year new outlets will be popping up--Atlanta; Costa Mesa, California; and the Bal Harbour district of Miami. The house now receives the ultimate accolade: it is widely copied. Several outfits in Calvin Klein's latest CK collection pay sincerely flattering tribute to Prada trademarks: chaste, neatly fitted coats and dresses; narrow belts; dropped waists...
Goaded partly by moral arguments and partly by a desire to stay on good terms with the governments of these countries, several companies have signed agreements to share any profits they make from local biological resources. Merck, for example, worked out a deal with Costa Rica that lets its investigators screen that nation's flora and fauna for potential new drugs, and Shaman Pharmaceuticals has similar agreements with a dozen countries...
...ever written. Crichton saw it as a challenge: "The reality is, you can't be fresh. If you're really fresh, it's not a sequel." He anticipates a critical drubbing, and probably deserves one. The book (it's six years after Jurassic Park, we're on a Costa Rican island, and the earth trembles .) has a cutting-room-floor feeling to it: outtakes. No matter; the national release of 2 million hardback copies is one of the biggest in history, and Spielberg is already storyboarding it for the movies--though he hasn't yet decided whether he will direct...
Huppe fills a position left vacant since August 1993, when Peter Costa left as director of the Office of News and Public Affairs...
WorldTeach was founded by a Harvard student who spent a year teaching in a rural Kenyan school in 1987. The program now coordinates programs in China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Namibia, Poland, Thailand and Mexico...