Word: logos
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...young Vuitton, who apprenticed with a Parisian trunkmaker before getting a job as Empress Eugenie's packer, struck gold when the arrival of steam engines and ocean liners created a craze for fashionable trunks. Vuitton's idea--to make them stackable and waterproof and, later, to cover them in logo-stamped canvas--was a hit. Soon a Who's Who of well-heeled world leaders was buying up Vuitton bed trunks and wardrobe cases. Even Coco Chanel couldn't resist, ordering one of the first Vuitton handbags. Today it's hard to walk through an airport or down an avenue...
...compete with China receive little sympathy from their larger cousins. One justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job in December to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66? an hour (instead of the 34? they had been receiving). Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city...
...Samurai copy was posted online under the pirate logo MPT--one of the so-called release groups that upload films and have their own hierarchy. Currently, MPT also claims to have online bootlegs of Paycheck, Big Fish and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Beyond the desire to get something for nothing, serious downloaders relish the technology of pirating for technology's sake. "I'm a geek," says one Indian student living in France. "There's a thrill of it. The first movie I downloaded, it was quite a kick--it was My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
Piracy is so rampant in parts of Asia that even the pirates have problems with piracy. In Taipei, a copy of Samurai purchased over the phone for $1.76 features the logo "HLW production team/Production: KC" in the upper right-hand corner of the image. The group attached its pirate mark so it can police its own product, speculates Michael Ellis, vice president of Asia-Pacific antipiracy operations for the M.P.A.A. "From a criminal point of view, if someone is taking away your market share, that's a problem." (The Chinese-character subtitles were not always of professional quality. When...
...pleased--to learn his unit is called the Tomb Raiders. "That seems so appropriate for him," she says. Jim, who wants to become a journalist, has sketched characters and fantasy figures since childhood. He's good enough that his training unit at boot camp had him design a bulldog logo for their T shirts. Jocelyn knows he's running low on drawing supplies when she receives the rare letter home, asking for more colored pencils and notebooks. Jim also "draws a mean Sonic," another computer-game character that's a favorite of her first-graders. The kids know Jocelyn...