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...dyes and modern manufacture. Next, get down on your knees and scrape a 4-cm patch of carpet with your fingernails about a dozen times. A small pile of fluff indicates poor-quality wool and a limited life-span. Then briskly rub a section of the rug with the flat of your hand. The palm should come up shiny - lightly greased from the wool's natural lanolin and a good indication of how well the carpet will age. "Do this in front of the shopkeeper," says Tawab, "and he will start bringing out his best pieces." Finally, look...
...countries like India, with strong capabilities in software development, have gained leverage in attracting the work. Joining the tech companies congregating in Bangalore is a diverse group of manufacturers developing software for their products. Philips, the Dutch consumer-electronics giant, develops and tests software for DVD players and flat-screen TVs. General Motors opened a research lab, its first outside the U.S. Others without wholly owned R&D labs are parceling out discrete pieces of research to Indian firms such as Wipro Technologies, which increased its R&D business 55% last year. "[Clients] are not doing their core-competency product...
...furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Flat shoes may have made a big comeback on fashion runways recently, but stiletto lovers could not have predicted the return of that '70s staple, Earth Shoes. Celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow, Taye Diggs and Pierce Brosnan are snapping up styles such as the Vegan Mirage, right, for their comfort (the heels...
...lives, but it also plays its part in shaping them. Marketers have picked up on the fact that twixters on their personal voyages of discovery tend to buy lots of stuff along the way. "They are the optimum market to be going after for consumer electronics, Game Boys, flat-screen TVs, iPods, couture fashion, exotic vacations and so forth," says David Morrison, president of Twentysomething Inc., a marketing consultancy based in Philadelphia. "Most of their needs are taken care of by Mom and Dad, so their income is largely discretionary. [Many twentysomethings] are living at home, but if you look...
Though a mere fraction of the retail food pie's more than $500 billion-a-year total, natural foods' estimated $16 billion in annual sales is one of the few bright spots in a generally flat industry. Spurred by the soaring popularity of such natural retailers as Whole Foods and Wild Oats and expanded natural sections at the likes of Kroger and Safeway, as well as rising concerns about obesity, natural and organic foods are growing at 5% to 10% a year, and they could claim 10% of the entire food universe within a decade. "I don't think natural...