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This year alone BCBG opened stores in New York City (where there will be five by the end of the year); Indianapolis, Ind.; Charlotte, N.C.; Bordeaux, France; Valencia, Spain; and Athens, among other cities. Still to come: Albuquerque, N.M.; Woodland, Texas; Wailea, Hawaii; the Virgin Islands; Lisbon; Brussels; and more. "The world map looks smaller than ever before. In 2007 Europe will be very big. We're accelerating that, based on my acquisition of strategic brands," says Azria, referring to designer retailers Alain Manoukian and Don Algodôn and French couturier Hervé Léger. "We're fantastic in Asia because...
...British-born astronomer, now at Caltech, has been granted a single precious night to use one of the twin Keck telescopes, among the most powerful in the world. Last night he and his observing partner, a graduate student named Dan Stark, flew 3,000 miles, from Southern California to Hawaii, where the Kecks are located. And during most of the afternoon and early evening today, they've made their final plans for the "run," as astronomers call a night of peering into the heavens...
...things are not going right. It isn't the weather, which is what usually trips up stargazers. Here at Keck headquarters in the sleepy town of Waimea, nestled in the midst of cattle-ranching country on Hawaii's Big Island, thick clouds are scudding past, occasionally dipping low enough to send a driving mist across the grassy hills. But the telescopes are some 25 miles away and more than two miles up, in the thin, frigid air at the summit of the extinct volcano Mauna Kea. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft., the observatory sits well above...
...Percentage of the population that is non-Hispanic white in Hawaii--up 6%--one of two states where the percentage of whites is growing. The other is West Virginia...
...brave, the mean, the selfish, the feckless, most of whom, when the crisis peaks, are capable of being whipped into an effective fighting force by a peerless leader, in this instance personified by Samuel L. Jackson's Neville Flynn, an FBI agent escorting a witness (Nathan Phillips) from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against a crime lord...