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...Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province?and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets?a day pass at Lotus Mountain costs about $20, roughly equivalent to a local farmer's weekly salary?may limit the sport to yuppies, there's plenty of room for the sport to grow. China's middle class is 50 million strong and, by some estimates, could reach...
...Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province-and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets-a day pass at Lotus Mountain costs about $20, roughly equivalent to a local farmer's weekly salary-may limit the sport to yuppies, there's plenty of room for the sport to grow. China's middle class is 50 million strong and, by some estimates, could reach...
...some preconceptions. At Aurora, there are no teakwood salas staffed by smiling, sarong-clad maidens bearing ginger tea. Instead, the babushkas who greet you will show the way to clean but basic accommodation that still has the faint whiff of an institution hanging over it, despite a recent face-lift. The solution is to lie back and think of the bragging potential - your friends may have done chakra balancing in Bhutan, or chromotherapy in Bali, but Kyrgyzstan? If there's any other dissonant note, it's the knowledge that Lake Issyk-Kul was a top-secret testing site for Soviet...
...example, Hugo Boss's new men's fragrance, Energize, is thoughtfully organized on stand-alone shelves complete with dipsticks for sampling. Don't be fooled: that little five-shelf contraption known as a breaker column?positioned so that it masks competitors' brand names?is expected to give sales a lift. It costs $7,200 a month to place it in 180 French stores. Aron walks me through the perfumery, a chain he knows well because he once managed purchasing and marketing for the company's founder, and reveals some of the secrets behind fragrance and cosmetic sales...
...blossoming and energy-thirsty economies of India and China promise to lift the demand for oil to unprecedented heights. In this context, President Bush’s proposal to provide India with fuel for its civilian nuclear power plants is prudent and necessary. The president articulated the reasoning behind the plan while visiting New Delhi last week: “Increasing demand for oil from America, from India and China, relative to a supply that’s not keeping up with demand, causes our fuel prices to go up,” he said...