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...company has already used Chinese know-how to score impressive results in that other great Asian emerging market, India. After being trained in Beijing, Lenovo's India managers increased the number of resellers nearly 40%, to 1,100 so far this year. Chinese-designed PCs were introduced to expand the product line and Bollywood stars hired to pump up the brand. India is also introducing Lenovo's SMS information system, by which distributors send daily sales reports. That allows managers to quickly adjust prices and product mix based on real-time data. Results? Lenovo's India sales jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lenovo's Global Gambit | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...chamber, as he described a phone call the President made to Monica Lewinsky, "you call somebody at 2:30 in the morning, you're up to no good." But in the Senate, Graham has become one of Hillary Clinton's good friends and has sponsored legislation with her to expand health benefits for reservists and members of the Guard--one of many times he has worked across the Senate aisle. Alex Sanders, the Democrat he defeated in 2002 to get the job, told TIME, "If I'd have known how Lindsey would turn out, I would have voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republican Leading the Rebellion Against Bush | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...designed and processed by industry; the FDA accepts the selective data; the audience of prescribing physicians is primed with a beautiful array of advertisements and educational promotion; the “thought leaders” among physicians are paid to lecture and influence; academics further work mightily to expand a disease concept to include greater application of product; emoluments are funneled to favored physicians to perform pseudo-research “seeding studies” to introduce prescription momentum into communities, and finally, platoons of sales agents (90,000 currently) arrive with catered lunches in physicians’ offices, carrying...

Author: By James H. Lampman, | Title: Corporate Influence On Physicians Must Be Checked | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...exploration! But it will probably suck; just remember to plan ahead and take the class that you’re most interested in. And if you actually like to read and write, this Core area should be a cinch; it might offer you the opportunity to branch out and expand your literary horizons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lit and Arts A | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...suggestive of his own divine guidance, that the ordinary, devout Iranian could be easily made to think the two enjoy a special connection. These religious tendencies irritate many clerics in Iran's theological center, Qom, and serious religious scholars, who feel the president is using the Mahdi mythology to expand his own power, and in the process conflating the Mahdi's attributes with those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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