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...where chocolate was the exotic new import from South America. (A Frenchman reportedly opened the first chocolate-drinking house in London in 1657.) As reimagined for 21st century America, the lounges--there are now dozens in the U.S.--range from elegant Continental-style establishments like Manhattan's La Maison du Chocolat, where a cup of Guayaquil or Caracas hot cocoa sets you back $7, to the more mass-market Ethel's Chocolate Lounges, created by Mars Inc., the U.S.'s No. 2 candy vendor. Mars has launched three Ethel's in Chicago this year and plans on three more...
...When last you and I met in this electronic space to hash over affaires du Sox, the season was brand spanking new, the championship rings were just out of their boxes, Fever Pitch was hitting the theaters and the ?World Champion Red Sox? were launching their defense. The mood, as it had been for six months, was one of giddiness, gaiety, jollity-eternal sunshine, no fear of failure. Don?t get me wrong, here: We?re still cheerful (we?re in first place, after...
...began with a firm commitment to crack the market, however long it might take. "If the Japanese get the impression that you're not committed to business for the long term, you're in trouble," says Robert J. Sievers, who just completed a three-year stint as president of Du Pont Japan. Echoes James Abegglen, director of the Graduate School of Comparative Culture at Tokyo's Sophia University: "There must be a conviction that says you are going to be in Japan, by God, whatever it takes...
...twelve prototypes for the Ergon; for the Equa, designed in collaboration with Don Chadwick, there were 27. Before Equa, there were two kinds of office chairs: seat and back could be separate, as in Ergon, or they could be one solid shell. Stumpf and Chadwick found a new material (Du Pont's Rynite, a reinforced fiber glass) and thereby an ingenious third design: the Equa shell is continuous, but a graceful H-shaped slice is carved out of the lower back so that it becomes virtually animate, bending like two independent pieces. "One day I took an X-Acto knife...
...Botha government may focus additional wrath on the white dissenters in its midst. According to the magazine Financial Mail, Finance Minister Barend du Plessis recently told its Washington correspondent that "when the time comes," Pretoria will "know what to do" with South African businessmen who have been strenuously pressing for racial reform...