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Though it may not signify a major strategic shift for P&G, the Art of Shaving is one of the more intriguing chips in company's portfolio. While neither the store nor P&G will specify how many new outlets will open over the next few years, expect a surge. "P&G acquired this business, and obviously wants to grow it," says Malka. "P&G has a mission to win with men, and the Art of Shaving is an important platform to serve men in the premium marketplace...
...landscape of the marketplace over the past four or five months, it became apparent to us that there was going to be this virtual tsunami of 3-D television sets hitting the marketplace," says Sean Bratches, ESPN's executive president for sales and marketing, who has played a major role in the network's 3-D initiative. "There's probably no better genre than sports for 3-D." (See the top 10 TV series...
Published in the Italian journal Acta Geneticae Medicae et Gemellologiae, Pembrey's paper, now considered seminal in epigenetic theory, was contentious at the time; major journals had rejected it. Although he is a committed Darwinist, Pembrey used the paper - a review of available epigenetic science - to speculate beyond Darwin: What if the environmental pressures and social changes of the industrial age had become so powerful that evolution had begun to demand that our genes respond faster? What if our DNA now had to react not over many generations and millions of years but, as Pembrey wrote, within...
...goal is not only to improve conditions for the current participants of such programs, but also hopefully to reduce the risk of problems in successive generations, including major causes of death and disability like obesity, heart disease and stroke. "It's not a secret that there is a growing epidemic of obesity and there's no question that the way we eat and the way we exercise, or do not exercise, is contributing to it. But it's a huge mistake to attribute it just to the need to close down fast-food restaurants and turn off the TV. There...
...Harvard Psilocybin Project was in full swing [see correction below]. The project, which involved administering psilocybin (a consciousness-expanding drug) to research subjects, brought together Timothy Leary, Huston Smith, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), and former Crimson editor Andrew T. Weil ’63, four men who became major players in the counterculture movement and, as Lattin claims, "killed the fifities and ushered in a new age for America...