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...Sher, one of the pioneers, introduced Meijin's first PDA to China in 1995. A high-school dropout, he and his family slipped away to Hong Kong from his native Fujian during the Cultural Revolution. Today, the family has built a small empire with interests in property and light manufacturing. Sher struggled for years to build a market for PDAs. Even today, manufacturers complain that their main competition in China is the Filofax. "We started from zero. A complete nothing," Sher says. Today the employer of 900, he likes to needle rivals, notably Hi-Tech Wealth president Zhang Zhengyu...
...unlike the fashion industrial complex in the West, in which top designers and magazine editors dictate what's hot, Japan's teen fashion industry revolves entirely around what Tokyo girls say is kawaii. Every month, high schoolers in the capital spend roughly $275 each on gear and clothes?three times more than the average Japanese high schooler. (As a group, high-school girls in the country spend around $2.5 billion annually.) Most of that discretionary yen goes to the brand name with the newest, hottest, coolest style. And for those brands that capture that essence of kawaii, the potential markets...
...most profitable labels foster tight working relationships with Japan's myriad, ubiquitious teen fashion magazines. Karisuma tenin can spawn trends inside Shibuya, but they can't reach the countryside or abroad without a fashion mag's endorsement. Japan's high-school girls read, on average, at least five fashion magazines a month, which means the influence of the right Tokyo glossies can be huge. "If a magazine advertises a certain brand or look, girls will buy it," Takai says. The most popular ones tend to showcase karisuma tenin in their brand's clothes, launching waves of copy-cat teenagers...
This, I think, is why I couldn’t tell high-school me whether I was right to come to Harvard, or tell first-year me whether I’ve done the right things once here. In high school, our options are limited, and we can pursue every activity for which we have an aptitude or ambition...
...reality, in 2001, is that my high-school freshman sister has a cell phone and that I occasionally plug Kevin's name into a Google search field. And that cell phone carriers in the U.S. are scrambling to meet the fall deadline to start rolling out location-pinpointing services that, by law, will have to be reliable enough to track all their cell-phone subscribers at least 66% of the time. The only people who will have die-hard access to this information are the folks who answer emergency calls to 911. They're the folks who lobbied...