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...will be years before China has a consumer-driven economy like that of the U.S., but with retail spending rising by double-digit percentages every year, the immediate future looks good. For the most part, the companies poised to enjoy the splurge will not be multinational but Chinese. They know their home market, and how to overcome its obstacles. Some also offer instructive examples for foreign enterprises keen to ride the growth of Chinese consumer culture. Here are four: (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...
Yesterday's run seemed to focus on one important concept that has driven Novey and his challenge: passion. For running, education, and of course, burgers...
...Sacco reminds us, for example, that the vast majority of Gazans are refugees driven out of their homes on Israel's coastal plain in the war of 1948, and barred from returning. And in one of the most startling observations in the book, he shows that Israeli leaders understood exactly why the Palestinians of Gaza would turn to violence. He quotes General Moshe Dayan, Israel's most celebrated military commander, at the April 1956 funeral of a kibbutznik slain by Palestinian fedayeen near the Gaza border, warning Israelis that they faced an intractable conflict that they had no choice...
...example, generated nearly 45% of its revenue in 2009 in the dollar region. "The bigger the company is, the less traditional export activity it tends to do and the less exposed it is to currency fluctuations," says Siemens spokesman Wolfram Trost. "But when applied to an entire export-driven country like Germany, a drop in the value of the euro becomes a very significant and positive development." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...just as applicable to humans; previous work on gut microbiota has found that obese individuals tend to have a makeup of pathogens in their intestines different from that of people who are of normal weight. "Our results suggest that the tendency to eat more may not only be driven by the fact that food is cheaper and more available, but by a change in the bacteria in the intestines," he says. "People may be eating too much because their appetite is stronger due to a low-grade inflammation they have, which could be due to changes in their gut bacteria...