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While surveys suggest that most women continue to buy just one or two bottles at a time for immediate consumption, a growing number of female devotees are discovering the pleasures--and surprising affordability--of starting a small collection or cellar and allowing wines to develop over time. When wine is young, its fruit often pops out of the glass, but as it ages--if the wine comes from good soil and a good producer--the fruit fades and the complexity deepens. Women may actually appreciate the nuances of flavor and bouquet more than men do, because studies suggest that they...
...professor of landscape architecture at Peking University, argues that China's current approach to urban development, with its emphasis on size and status over originality, is as environmentally reckless as it is visually dull. With farmland and forests disappearing and water running out, Yu says, cities can't afford be so wasteful: "China needs a dramatic shift. We've misunderstood what it means to be developed. We need to develop a new system, a new vernacular, to express the changing relationship between land and people." When Yu, now 42, returned home in 1997 with a doctorate in design from Harvard...
...Still, many luxury-goods retailers predict that their India business will develop relatively slowly compared with their business in other emerging markets such as China. One major barrier is India's stiff tariffs on high-end imports?the tax on imported watches, for example, is 50%. Joseph Wan, Group Chief Executive for Harvey Nichols, the London-based retailer, says India's recent economic growth and indications that New Delhi is prepared to liberalize its markets are encouraging, but adds that prime real estate in Indian cities is too expensive and that tariffs are prohibitively steep. "Harvey Nichols caters...
...with Batali. (Batali's influence can also be seen in the crudo sensation in New York City and L.A.--crudo being Italian-style raw fish, brightly flavored and very pricey. And Batali has inspired top chefs like Michael Symon of Cleveland, Ohio, to begin curing meats in-house to develop their flavors more idiosyncratically.) As for Heat, Batali waves off "the stupid s___" he does in the book--"can't do anything about it"--and jokes that Philip Seymour Hoffman is "the only one of size" who could play him in the rumored film adaptation...
Still, the arrival of a new nonsurgical treatment for one of women's most common complaints is good news. Women have a tendency to delay treatment for fibroids until they are huge and causing big problems. "As we develop less invasive procedures," says Dr. Elizabeth Stewart of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, "we will be able to treat women earlier...