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...those years, environmental and social change have hit Greenland hard and fast. In Nuuk, drying musk ox hides hang over the balconies of the monolithic blocks of public housing that absorb exiles from the quickly emptying outlying villages stationed around the island's rocky fringe. The island's transition to a cash economy has rendered subsistence hunting a less and less viable way to live, and the effects of climate change on sea ice has made hunting seasons shorter and less predictable. Poverty, alcoholism and high suicide rates haunt the population. Alfred Jakobsen, deputy minister of the environment...
CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION Chinese consumers who buy luxury goods do so to show off or to help define their identity. The Asian concept of face?or pride and dignity?is a key reason they invest in expensive brands. In a fast-growing economy, status symbols are the easiest way to demonstrate wealth and power...
...luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.' ?Philippe Starck
WHAT TORY BURCH HAS accomplished in the past 3 1/2 years is nothing short of impressive. Seemingly overnight she went from full-time mom?a title she accepted after years of working at Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang and Harper's Bazaar?to woman on the fast track to becoming a mega-brand. When she launched her eponymous company in 2004, Burch eschewed the traditional slow-growth route and dove right in with a complete product range of clothes and accessories, even candles. If Burch's luxe '60s- and '70s-inspired designs are a manifestation of her high-fashion pedigree...
...field are usually wrong, what apparently happened was that mortar rounds landed in the vicinity of the convoy. The Blackwater shooters assumed they were under attack. When a car bore down on the convoy, they made a second wrong assumption: a suicide bomber was behind the wheel. Things happened fast, and the Blackwater team fired on the car, killing a child and two adults. We can second-guess Blackwater all we want, but the ground truth is Iraq is a shoot first and ask questions later...