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...downs too. It still makes sweaters but it has also greatly expanded its product offerings to include a wide range of apparel as well as new brands such as fashion-forward Sisley and the leisurewear brand Playlife. Now in overall charge of the group, Alessandro has his hands full. The challenge today is to restore some of Benetton's luster and take the company global far more aggressively. Italy still accounts for 46% of sales - Europe overall accounts for 80% - at a time of sluggish economic growth and ferocious competition on its home turf from fast-fashion rivals...
...bivara barsa village in Vidarbha couldn't agree more. Though he has received aid from the government, Mandase, 38, complains that it hasn't been the right kind. The state donated a metal plow and a pesticide sprayer, but neither worked. To get subsidized soybean seeds, he spends a full day traveling by bus to a nearby town. It often takes two or three trips, and, with bus fares costing him 60? per roundtrip, he wonders if the cheaper seeds are worth the effort. What he really requires, he says, is better infrastructure to make him less dependent...
...care system, from small tweaks to wholesale overhauls. There's pay-for-performance: compensation depending on doctors' success in keeping costs down and getting patients well. There's episode care: a fixed price for a procedure like a heart bypass that covers everything from pre-op to surgery to full recuperation. Most broadly, there's global care, which provides access to a diverse team of caregivers who cover all of a patient's needs for a single premium over the length of a policy - essentially episode care writ large...
...full of fighting kites is symbolic. The multiplicity of explosive Afghan factions, competing interests and networks remain so complex and hazardous that honest students of the country's recent history are eager to point out the limits of their own knowledge. It is all daunting. As John Dempsey, Senior Rule of Law Advisor for the United States Institute of Peace, says, "there are things I still find confusing about this place, and I've been here seven years." (Read a story about Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner...
...reduce the need for lawyers, as well as the glut of cases, by mandating mediation between lenders and homeowners. Courts that cover Miami-Dade now require such arbitration, as do courts in cities like Philadelphia. But the efforts to modify mortgage terms or find other ways to avoid full-blown foreclosure don't always work, and many cases still end up in court. State bar associations like Florida's are also promoting pro bono foreclosure work. The effort is helped, says Lombardi, by a new awareness among many lawyers who once deemed foreclosure victims foolish, lazy or unethical borrowers...