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...South Korea. But widespread web access is relatively new in China, and there's been little concern until lately about the perils of overuse. Tao Ran, director of Beijing Military Hospital's Internet Addiction Treatment Center, claims that up to two- thirds of violent crimes committed by adolescents are driven by Internet obsession...
...other, you must be successful," says Rosso, leaning across an outdoor table laid out with a country lunch. He has driven up the steep gravel road to the Diesel Farm, an estate acquired as a sort of company retreat in the Veneto countryside, with Stefano, 27, the second of his six children, who is completing a customized M.B.A.-style training course to be able some day to take over the company's management. Rosso's oldest son Andrea, 28, is creative director at the group's surf and street-wear line 55DSL. Rosso is wearing his usual chief-executive attire...
...Diesel continues to expand. In addition to perfume, there's a home-furnishings line in the works, and Rosso is in the middle of an ambitious strategy to make Diesel more premium by integrating sophisticated techniques from ready-to-wear and pushing up prices accordingly. Rosso says he is driven by the increasing sophistication of fast-fashion outfits like H&M and Zara. And by the fact that there are more newly rich people in emerging markets. "My company is 28 years old, and all the customers who were with me at the start are now older and looking...
...COULD BE A RECIPE for how to go broke in the fashion business: establish yourself somewhere far off the style map, target women over 35, ignore the current accessory-driven business trend, and insist on using luxurious fabrics so that your clothes become prohibitively expensive. And don't forget to make sure your heritage is as unhip as possible, something along the lines of your grandmother's founding the family company with an apron business...
...movement's renaissance has infuriated a number of prominent pastors, theologians and commentators. Fellow megapastor Rick Warren, whose book The Purpose Driven Life has outsold Osteen's by a ratio of 7 to 1, finds the very basis of Prosperity laughable. "This idea that God wants everybody to be wealthy?", he snorts. "There is a word for that: baloney. It's creating a false idol. You don't measure your self-worth by your net worth. I can show you millions of faithful followers of Christ who live in poverty. Why isn't everyone in the church a millionaire...