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...Procter's next generation of billion-dollar brands will probably come out of this area, which includes Olay skin care, Cover Girl cosmetics, Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo and Actonel osteoporosis prescription medication. Two of the most recent ones to join the elite club are Crest and Iams, the high-end pet food that P&G acquired in 1999 and has since turned into a mass-market brand. Driven by aging baby boomers and image-conscious youngsters, demand for skin-care products, cosmetics, shampoos and all manner of over-the-counter and prescription remedies is growing at about...
...comic novel, "Cages" first appeared as a series of sporadically published books from 1991 through 1996. Then the collected "Cages" became a victim of successive publishing bankruptcies, and has been out of print for some time. As ambitious as it is gigantic, it has now returned. Possibly the most high-end comic ever published, "Cages" combines art-book production values with a story about Life, Death, Art, God and a black...
...magic wand and make every car fuel efficient, it wouldn't solve all our problems," says Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research in Manchester, N.H. "It is still very energy intensive to move a 2,000- or 3,000-pound machine." His solution: the Segway, the recently unveiled high-end scooter that goes up to 13 m.p.h., is powered by an electric motor and runs on just a nickel's worth of electricity a day. The batteries today are standard nickel- metal hydride and nickel-cadmium, but the scooters could easily be switched over to a hydrogen-based power source...
...restaurants - the Gallery, a stylish café overlooking the Prada, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Fendi boutiques, and the Base Bar, a hip sandwich eatery in the basement music department - to its existing 15 (three are concessions). The recently renovated Liberty store on Regent Street now features a high-end restaurant called Arthur...
...break" massages courtesy of Amtrak. Miles west, in Lakewood, Colo., accountants at Bradley Allen & Assoc. were visited five times by deft-fingered folk from the Whole Body Health Center. Nearly half the 103 Wild Oats grocery stores in North America offer massages, as do many of the high-end Whole Foods markets, the largest natural-foods chain in the U.S. "You don't think to yourself, 'I'm going to get some spinach and a rubdown,'" says Liz Feldman, who goes to her local Whole Foods every two weeks for a stint in the massage chair. "But even...