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...only entrepeneur trying to change the world one purse at a time. Working with the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), Presidential niece and model Lauren Bush has designed the FEED Bag - a stylish but sturdy tote bag made of brown sacking and white canvas. The proceeds from the $60 bag go to the WFP, which provided a staggering 16 million children worldwide with school meals in 2006 as part of their efforts to feed the 300 million children around the world that suffer chronic hunger. And Intuition (www.shopintuiton.com) has launched the Market Bag to help educate children in need...
...largest - and inked onto reams of stamps (over 100 governments will be issuing Diana stamps before the end of August). And then there are the dolls. Lots of dolls. U.S. collectibles company the Franklin Mint has a catalog that reads like a Who's Who of scale-model celebrity, from Marilyn Monroe to Jackie Onassis. Lady Di - at $195 a doll - outsells them all. A private company, the Franklin Mint won't say how many of the dolls it has sold. (The U.S. firm had a long legal battle, now settled, with the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund over...
...needs low-maintenance customers. At the firm's New York City café, one of five token storefronts, manager Omar Woodard recently let an older woman walk away without an account after she worried aloud that branchless banking might be too newfangled. "Customers who don't fit our business model don't fit our business model, and that's totally O.K.," says Woodard. "The bank just wasn...
...Animation chief executive whose stormy relationship with Eisner led him to court new production and distribution partners for Pixar's films. By the time Iger officially took over in October of that year, he and Jobs had mopped up the bad blood and discussed ways of adopting the iTunes model for selling video. They shook hands two weeks later on a pioneering deal to sell ABC programs on the video iPod. In January 2006, Disney purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion, and Jobs joined the company's board. "On paper, [Iger's] strategy is just as good...
...these simulators don't come cheap. Approved by the FAA (and sometimes also by the Joint Aviation Authorities in Europe), each simulator has digitized versions of the 85 largest airports in the world, runs on the equivalent processing power of 500 Xboxes and does everything the same model aircraft would do. Being able to safely navigate through low visibility and a ceiling of 800 ft. or to land smoothly after a fire in the left wing's engine prepares pilots for their first experience piloting an actual aircraft, which could be loaded with passengers...