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Home improvement is like cooking: if we spent as much time doing it ourselves as watching others do it on TV, there would be no need for KFC or contractors. So why is it that you can't swing a hammer on cable TV nowadays without hitting, well, a hammer? In one of the homilies that end his Discovery Channel show, designer Christopher Lowell offers a hint. "I hope I've given you some great ideas," he says, "so the next time you have guests, they'll feel as if they've walked into a warm and loving environment...
...That's an expense many Chinese are willing to swallow these days, along with large helpings of deep-fried pork balls and buckets of KFC. More than 70 million Chinese are classified by the government health ministry as overweight, owing to the fast food and fast living that is playing havoc with upwardly mobile mainlanders' waistlines. "In the past, everyone was so poor," says Zhao Min, 28, a Shenzhen dentist who practices combined yoga/ballet three times a week. "People didn't have the time or money to spend on themselves, but at least they were healthier because they ate simple...
...integrated into Chinese society that after the United States’ bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, efforts to boycott McDonald’s actually failed. More strikingly, during the occupation of Tiananmen Square in 1989, troops of the People’s Liberation Army ate in KFC...
...numbers are growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their own Speedpass clones this year. Fast-food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Taco Bell, as well as Canteen Vending, began rolling out m-commerce initiatives this year. Blockbuster and 7-Eleven are expected to follow soon...
About 400 customers at KFC and Taco Bell restaurants in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are testing an m-commerce system created by 2Scoot, based in Kingston, N.Y. In July 2Scoot signed a deal with Nokia to bring cashless payments to the lunch counter at the Finnish cell-phone giant's U.S. headquarters in Irving, Texas...