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...minute--with its cafes and retail space, escalator atrium and digital displays across the exterior walls--that the lackluster term library has been put aside. The official name for this place is the Idea Store. Directed to create a library that would be as user friendly as a shopping mall, Adjaye provided a design of interflowing spaces that he thinks of as "almost like a jungle gym that you climb all over...
...many shoe nerds, Nike rules. Since it first issued a retro Air Jordan in 1994, Nike has consistently created some of the rarest, most coveted sneakers. In 2001 in a Sacramento, Calif., mall, 60 police officers in riot gear faced a tense crowd of 200 people ready to battle over 80 pairs of Nike Jordan Retro XIs that were being put up for sale. This summer the most coveted shoe is the Nike Heineken Dunk, the first in a six-pack of collectible Dunks. Riot cops, beware. There were reportedly only 1,000 pairs made. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...cutting edge of this consumer boom is on full display in Gurgaon, a satellite city south of New Delhi that is rapidly developing into mall-rat heaven. Since December, three mammoth, glitzy malls have opened their doors there, crammed with a collection of stores airlifted straight from America's suburbs--Nike, Benetton, Pizza Hut, Subway sandwiches, even a showroom for Bose audio systems. Two multiplex theaters show such Hollywood hits as The Matrix Reloaded. Five more malls nearby are in the works...
...cutting edge of this consumer boom is on full display in Gurgaon, a satellite city south of New Delhi that is rapidly developing into mall-rat heaven. Since December, three mammoth, glitzy malls have opened their doors there, crammed with a collection of stores airlifted straight from America's suburbs?Nike, Benetton, Pizza Hut, Subway sandwiches, even a showroom for Bose audio systems. Two multiplex theaters show such Hollywood hits as The Matrix Reloaded. Five more malls nearby are in the works...
...each other's problems. The gimmick is cleverly, weightlessly played out. Thirteen is quite a different proposition. You get the impression that Hardwicke, who is single and childless, got shocked to her socks trying to help raise a girl in a culture full of bad-assed music, shopaholic mall life and loony peer pressure for the right clothes and attitude. Yet there's a welcome roughness and passion to Thirteen. To see the essentially innocent Tracy taken over by her scheming, psychopathic friend because everyone else--parents, teachers, cliquey friends (another big topic in academia)--is too distracted...