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...passers-by to take their picture with the company's new T68i, a combination cell phone and digital camera. Vespa promoted U.S. sales of its scooters last summer with a biker gang of beautiful people who were paid to ride them around such cities as Los Angeles and Houston...
...Sieger, 34, a research associate at a Houston-based biomedical research firm, has turned to the Atkins diet, a weight-loss program that seems to defy nutritional wisdom. Most health experts advise you to favor carbohydrates, found in everything from fruits to grains, while going easy on the protein and fat. On the Atkins diet, one is allowed to eat all the protein- and fat-drenched meat and butter one wants but must cut out cereal and bread. And if Sieger is puzzled by certain aspects of the diet--among other things, the initial phase is so low in fiber...
...last into the high-ceilinged, sunlit nave of the church; when it arrives there, all misgivings drop to the ground. Moneo is a master of interior spaces, an expert at setting traps for sunlight. An addition he designed a few years ago for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston contains some of the most satisfying gallery spaces in the U.S.--a succession of rooms lighted gently from above by light boxes that thrust up from the museum's roof to catch the sun. In his Los Angeles church, light is filtered through windows made of thin sheets of semitransparent...
...have signed petitions complaining that the insecticides make them sick, and the county's $35,000 mosquito-control program is on hold. "It appears that there's some chemically sensitive people," says the county health department's Tom Pope. "They've been raising a lot of Cain." Officials in Houston's Harris County are having the opposite problem. Trucks there head out five or six nights a week, says Sandy Kachur of the county's public-health department, but residents want more. "Our hardest task has been letting people know we're not a pest-control company," Kachur says...
...Reinhard Mohn, 81, who built a 19th century printer of church hymnals into one of Germany's most successful private companies, with interests from magazines and newspapers in its Gruner + Jahr subsidiary to its record and music company BMG, which includes recording stars like Christina Aguliera and Whitney Houston. Last year the company had earnings of €970 on revenues of €20 billion...