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...fashion scene in Bangkok can be traced to two converging forces, one grassroots and the other government-driven. Rising incomes and increasing exposure to international trends have built up a critical mass of Thai consumers with a taste for fashion and money to spend, creating demand for domestic designs that suit Thailand's climate and social scene without breaking the bank. Meanwhile, Thailand's Ministry of Industry?in an effort to shift the country's garment industry, which generated $3.25 billion in exports last year, higher up the value chain?has been nurturing the local designers, spending $45 million since...
...Guns, tanks and planes were once simple to operate. Now, high-tech communications and weapons systems mean the military needs engineers, electricians and computer technicians just to move. The diversity of adf missions - 1,600 troops are now serving abroad, from the Solomon Islands to Iraq - demands a whole new range of skills: troops must be ready not only to fight but to tend the sick, provide water and sanitation, and maintain law and order. But in an ageing workforce where the demand for skills outstrips supply, attracting and keeping people of the caliber the adf needs is hard...
...much. It can't afford, for example, to compromise on health and fitness. Yet an internal report leaked last year noted that young Australians were getting fatter and that their "high incidence of nonmedical drug use ... severely limits the pool of recruitable candidates." The profession of arms will always demand commitment and sacrifice, unpopular concepts in an affluent and individualistic society. adf research has found that young people's biggest concerns about the military are being away from home for long periods (the largely stay-at-home Air Force has less trouble recruiting than the oft-moved Army and Navy...
...balked at his plan to oust Parsons and install a new slate of directors as a precursor to a company breakup. Parsons and Icahn talked about striking a deal, but the talks stumbled after Parsons declined to appoint two of Icahn's handpicked directors. Icahn scaled back that demand, and the two finally reached a truce last week." I don't think shareholders were ready to give me the keys," Icahn told the New York Times. (Icahn declined to talk with TIME...
...dead throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world over the past two decades, is suddenly back in fashion. The public still shudders when recalling the accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later. But with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil spiking at more than $60 per bbl. and fears growing about the lasting impact of greenhouse gases, the outlook for nuclear power today is, well, quite radiant...