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...There's more than revenue growth at stake. There's national pride. Japan's prolonged recession threatens to relegate the country to second-class status among industrialized nations. By selling its i-mode and 3G know-how overseas, DoCoMo hopes to spread the mobile Internet?seeding the market for homegrown Japanese technology and boosting the country's status as an info-age innovator. "With DoCoMo and i-mode, you've got a global brand recognition and excitement over a new product that you haven't seen since the Sony Walkman," says Kirk Boodry, telecom analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein...
...that will have access to China. The 143 other WTO members are making a similar bet: that they will lose less business by opening themselves wider to China's exports of, say, textiles and apparel, than they will gain through new factories in China and new exports of technical know-how and certain grains. (Uncle Ben's is not expected any time soon.) There's enough efficiency to be gained from quickened global commerce that all these bets may well turn out winners...
...POCKET FURNITURE Droog Design, the loopy but inventive Dutch design collective, was approached by Picus, the Cadillac of cigar-box manufacturers, to find new ways to use Picus' wood manufacturing know-how. Droog came up with a series of multipurpose cabinets and boxes, all of which fit within one another and can be arranged in multiple configurations. The containers paid homage to their smoky origin but went on fantastic flights of fancy as stamp boxes, keepsake boxes and, of course, an elaborately reinvented cigar...
...Pocket Furniture Droog Design, the loopy but inventive Dutch design collective, was approached by Picus, the Cadillac of cigar-box manufacturers, to find new ways to use Picus' wood manufacturing know-how. Droog came up with a series of multipurpose cabinets and boxes, all of which fit within one another and can be arranged in multiple configurations. The containers paid homage to their smoky origin but went on fantastic flights of fancy as stamp boxes, keepsake boxes and, of course, an elaborately reinvented cigar...
With the posture of Miss America, the etiquette know-how of Miss Manners and the body of an athletic super model, Christina S.N. Lewis fills a room with presence. When she is agitated, she never yells or shouts. Rather, her head snaps up, her eyes glow with a level-headed intelligence and she states her beliefs clearly, knowing that she is right. Always. Her upbringing as a proper Parisian socialite has given her the poise to handle herself in any situation and to know what wine she should be drinking at any given time...