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...Their stuff is really original while still being marketable,” he says. An internship in the buying department of fashion label Gucci proved unrewarding because it didn’t allow Parent to exercise his artistic inclinations, but he enjoyed his work in Shanghai with designer Lu Kun. As a result, Parent has one condition for his future career: “I need it to be creative...
...power-packed sentence: Take these medications daily until all are gone, or you will die. If many millions of women can remember to take a birth control pill every day for years, surely those with TB can be convinced to take their medication correctly for six months. Merri Lu Park, ABADIANIA, BRAZIL
...After hearing that her boss is looking to replace her, Lu Qingmin quits her job in a factory's human resources department: "In August 2004, two months after she arrived, Min collected her pay and left without telling anyone... she spent the night in a hotel near her factory; while she slept, someone broke the lock on her door. The thief took nine hundred yuan [about $130] and Min's mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link...
...According to Lu, China's .27 basis-point cut signals that the country is now less concerned with fighting domestic inflation than in joining the rest of the world in battling a global slowdown. In a report released today, the International Monetary Fund warned that the world economy has entered a "major downturn" that would likely get worse before it gets better. It said central bankers trying to get a handle on the situation were "between a rock and a hard place...
...China may cut rates two or three more times this year, Lu predicts, following a pattern established during the 1997 Asian financial crisis when the country used aggressive monetary policy to maintain economic growth. On Thursday Hong Kong, a Chinese territory, reduced its lending rate for the second time in two days, dropping it by 50 basis points to 2% amid what Monetary Authority chief Joseph Yam called "the financial crisis of this century...