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...front: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE NEXT AXE AMBASSADOR? "I said, 'Yes, I do.'" Vladi sent his résumé to a Web address printed on the thong, interviewed and was hired to join Axe Bodyspray's small army of college representatives who receive a modest salary to promote Axe around campus by throwing parties, handing out products and generating buzz...
...dispute also illuminates the painful decline of Boeing, the 90-year-old aerospace company created by Bill Boeing from modest beginnings in a Seattle barn. Although its 156,000 workers produce thousands of products, from Internet equipment to satellites, the Boeing name has always meant aircraft. Yet for the second straight year, the $50 billion firm, based in Chicago, has been outsold by Airbus. In 2004 Boeing saw its market share fall to 43%, from 67% just five years...
...with chrysanthemum wreaths bearing ribbons of white, the Chinese color of death. One carried the inscription, "Go with an Easy Heart." The most liberal leader China's Communist Party has ever known died in seclusion on Jan. 17 after spending more than 15 years under house arrest in this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with...
...writing self-criticisms, according to the People's Daily. TV news, meanwhile, offers nightly profiles of model cadres like Zhou Guozhi, a peasant in rural Hubei province who lived in a wooden shack, hauled rocks on his back to build a bridge to his village, and was so modest that he scratched his name off a tablet listing the bridge's builders. Hu may be hoping that by strengthening the Party he will etch his own name in China's history...
...what does work? Guiliano, a size 6 and 112 lbs. dripping wet, sticks to simple, fresh ingredients, serves modest portions and savors every bite. "The main difference I see between here and France is that people here eat so much processed food," she says. "It's frightening what's in there." Guiliano herself eats lots of fruits, vegetables and fish. "Leeks and yogurt are my best weapons," she says. Not surprisingly, Guiliano, a director of champagne maker Veuve Clicquot, favors moderate wine drinking with meals...