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...English and moved them to San Francisco. After graduating from a California public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin (the lingua franca of the recording industry in Taiwan, China and smaller markets in Singapore and Malaysia), she recorded a song that became a hit in Taiwan's karaoke bars. Within six months she had churned...
...English. Her first internationally released CD came out last year, but it flopped in the U.S. Regardless, industry types believe CoCo has a fighting chance. "She has matured incredibly in the five years I've known her," says Alan Yavasis, vice president of marketing in Asia for Sony, her label since 1995. "She's more focused on what she wants and what she wants to accomplish." One project will combine rhythm and blues with Chinese-influenced vocals and instruments. "At first people said, 'You're a dreamer, there's no way you could become an international singer,'" CoCo says...
...Naomi Campbell from Berlin. The collection was well-received, and she set up her own company. Two years later when the French house of Chloé rang and asked if she'd succeed Karl Lagerfeld as designer, she replied with a resounding yes and gave up her own label. McCartney, famous for tight jeans and sexy tops ("She's the Diane Von Furstenburg of our generation," said designer Jeremy Scott), dramatically increased sales at Chloé. Now, at age 30, she's ready to launch the Stella McCartney label again - this time with a little help from her friends...
...revival of his fashion house used to design uniforms for the Japanese license partner! But under Nicolas Ghesquière's direction, the brand has become super hot. When Ghesquière told Gucci Group that he'd rather continue designing for Balenciaga than launch his own label, they bought the house...
Until then, doctors are likely to proceed fairly cautiously. They want to make sure they're helping their MCI patients without unnecessarily stigmatizing them with the Alzheimer's label. Still, there's hope, says Dr. Ronald Petersen, director of the Alzheimer's Researcher Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "These people are really quite functional." For if MCI is indeed the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease, and if it's possible to slow its progression, patients might be able to delay the onset of full-blown Alzheimer's and preserve a fairly decent quality of life...