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...redistribution of wealth to the poor has been the fundamental factor in explaining why Lula is ahead in the polls," says Carlos Ranulfo de Melo, a professor of politics and author of two books on Brazil's political parties. "There is more money around and it is reaching more people." The purchases made by those people, economists say, are helping breathe life into the economy, especially in the places where it was suffering. While retail sales in the south actually dropped 0.29% in the year ending May 2006, they rose 16% in the impoverished north and northeast thanks largely...
...JEANS Meli-Melo is the latest denim brand to spark a shopping frenzy among Intuition customers like Mischa Barton and Lindsay Lohan. Hersh predicts the brand's cropped jeans will be the pair to have for spring. "They're cut like trousers and have a really sexy fit." $180 at shopintuition.com...
...M.I.T visiting scholar, discussed the important influence that cute culture has on technology. Young women, labeled “kogals,” are the driving force behind the Hello Kitty genre as well as cell phone culture—the market size for “chaku-melo,” or trendy ring tone services, has reached one billion dollars and is poised to compete with annual cd sales revenue.The range of conference attendees reflected Hello Kitty’s mass appeal. Among those in attendance were anthropologists and market researchers as well as a number of undergraduates...
...pleasures of a certain kind of flesh. On a hot summer afternoon in 1471, His Holiness was reportedly lounging in the Vatican's backyard, enjoying the sun, the fresh air and some refreshing slices of melon. Then he died. The reputed cause: apoplexy, induced by overconsumption of iced Cucumis melo. Since practically the day human beings first walked the earth, we've had trouble turning down fruit, and by 1800 the Western world was in something of a fruit frenzy. People wanted specimens to look at, to study, to paint, to read about, to display, to write about and, occasionally...
...tell this story his first time behind the camera. Paxton clearly has learned the art of showing a story (as opposed to overtly telling his explicit intentions), but when actors decide to add the director title to their resumes, the tales they tell tend to be either acute, personal (melo)dramas or “idea” films that tackle supposedly weighty and relevant subject matters. Unfortunately, there is nothing personally touching to Paxton or particularly universal about the “religiously-motivated-murderous-sociopath” genre. Paxton does defy convention and wrench hearts with his portrayal...