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...economy as well as the fact that, as Cohen points out, three years is a long time to go without buying new clothes (especially since as men age, they also grow, generally going up a size every two years after the age of 35). But it is also being driven in some measure by a group of men heeding another trend from the collections. At Gucci, for example, menswear designer John Ray presented brocade jackets and ornate tunics adorned with beads and coins. At Miu Miu, coats dripped with small mirrors. For this winter, Hedi Slimane at Christian Dior Homme...
...alter their menus. Beef prices shot up by 21.7% in the second quarter, thanks to demand for cheap Polish meat in other E.U. states. Carb lovers suffered, too: rice prices rose 27.7% after Poland implemented E.U. tariffs on imports from countries such as Vietnam. Food and oil have driven overall inflation to almost double the central bank's 2.5% target, and bankers will likely hike interest rates for the fourth time in four months when they meet at the end of this month. Poland 's neighbors don't seem to be having the same problems; none has an agriculture sector...
...Asia. China's fast-growing economy and voracious appetite for raw materials (as well as for cars, cell phones and other middle-class baubles) has made it an increasingly key trading partner for its neighbors. Demand from China, for example, played a large role in hauling Japan's export-driven economy out of a prolonged slump. The mainland's neighbors have already been warily monitoring Beijing's efforts to cool overheated sectors such as real estate, fearful that clampdowns on credit and investment could crimp their China trade. Now there's a new worry: "China's dependence...
...Indeed, when it comes to oil, Asia faces a peculiar conundrum?a kind of macroeconomic China Syndrome. Vigorous mainland growth is great for regional trade, but China's outsized appetite has also driven up global commodity prices, including for crude. China, which is expected to consume 6.3 million barrels of oil per day in 2004, surpassed Japan last year to become the world's second-biggest oil guzzler (trailing only the U.S.). China "is emerging as one of the most decisive factors" in global energy markets, according to a June report published by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a U.S.-based...
...budget, but it's completely an independent filmmaker's film." These days, she's regularly courted by Hollywood, but the turbulence of her career has taught Nair that her flavor-of-the-month status won't last. In any case, Mamdani says, that isn't the objective. Nair is "driven more by passion than ambition," he says. This has afforded her a rare artistic license in what is often a timidly conventional profession. "When I have passion for something," says Nair, "I'm a weirdly kind of fearless person." Indeed, Mamdani explains Nair's yoga and gardening not as gentle...