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...what Gladwell calls Connectors. He groups them with Mavens (info freaks) and Salesmen (good persuaders) as the types who spread data the way the most engageable boys and girls spread venereal disease: fast. Gladwell plays Connector in the world of ideas. He links the company that makes Gore-Tex fabric, and which starts a new plant every time an old one has more than roughly 150 workers, with the Hutterites, the religious sect that splits off a new community every time an existing one approaches the same number. This would be a "So what?" coincidence if he didn't also...
...sticker on it that says, eI love my dementia.i I have a Singer at home. It feels like driving a car. It has about 480 horsepower, like a Lexus. I could give you a tour if you want to. Oh yeah, itis a her.i Regarding the oppression of fabric she says, ithread is born free and lives free. If you hold up a piece of fabric it just takes the shape it should be.i...
...wearing clothes that were on sale in the store,i she said. She also recalls her superiors describing the key to the Abercrombie ilook.i iThey said, you know everyone here is attractiveowe do this on purpose.i For this conglomerate, selling clothes is not about the quality of the fabric; it is simply about the of the people who wear them...
That's the trouble with cyberspace. It leaves nothing to chance. The Internet, with its antlike order, is in some ways becoming a Web of gated communities. It could deepen cultural and socioeconomic rifts even to the point of straining a nation's social fabric...
...wears things like that every day...you know when people dress up and their pants look like they are only worn when they dress up--brand new. These pants aren't brand new, but they look like they are clearly really nice pants. You can tell from the fabric. They could be designer. But if they are, they are not like, Giorgio Armani Coleccionne; they're like Giorgio Armani A/X. He probably got them at a men's store...