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...obstetrician in Salt Lake City, Utah, delivered a brand-spanking-new franchise into the world. Noting that pregnant women seemed to have an insatiable appetite for ultrasound images of their babies, Dr. Leon Hansen set up a retail offshoot of his practice that offered high-tech images in a low-rent setting--a mall. Women soon flocked there to buy sonogram videos and pictures made strictly for keepsake purposes. Hansen has since sold his stake in Fetal Fotos, but the business is booming with a dozen outlets across the country and a host of imitators with cutesy names like Peek...
...supermarket shelves. Ideo transformed itself into a highly unconventional business consultancy--taking clients on bizarre field trips or making them dress up as customers--that spread the gospel of design thinking to corporate America. The CEO of Procter & Gamble, for instance, was once sent shopping in San Francisco's low-rent Mission District, while top executives from Kraft were taken to the traffic-control center of a large city to see whether watching 1.2 million cars being stopped and started every day could influence their supply-chain management. (It did: after collaborating with Ideo, Kraft cut in half the time...
...Moore?s Oscar-winning ?Bowling for Columbine? established the agit-doc tone, which mixes sober condemnation with japish wit. The approach was part ?Democracy Now? (Amy Goodman?s low-rent, high-IQ newscast on radio and TV), part ?The Daily Show,? which since 9/11 has become the Left?s CNN. Jon Stewart has made the President is an easy figure of fun. But the agit-docs aimed to nail Dubya for crimes graver than speaking English as a second language. They viewed Bush and his closest advisors as Pirates of the Constitution, exploiting the national trauma over 9/11 to pursue...
...political and cultural watershed of that era. I’m as proud that my father was tear-gassed marching against the war in Washington in October 1967 (his second date with my mother, a year or so later, was at another peace rally) as that he cut a low-rent lyrical folk-pop album at the end of the decade. Sure, cynics might brand the DNC itself a dad trying too hard to be cool, but I for one appreciated the myriad nods to a decade when change somehow managed both to happen on a huge scale...
...weeks ago its leaders said the city would start demanding that newcomers speak decent Dutch and have a job paying 20% more than the minimum wage. The council has requested a four-year moratorium on settling more political refugees in the city, and has vowed to stop building low-rent housing to restore "long-term balance" to the Netherlands' second city. The center-right Dutch government, while keen to decrease immigration, has signaled its opposition to Rotterdam's approach. And with good reason: local initiatives, and even national ones, frequently lead to a mere displacement of the problem. Just...