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...nonpartisan research group, does not explore whether the tradeoff of less housework for more paid labor is for good or ill. "That's up to policymakers to decide, according to their values," says Gelber. But signs point to housework as becoming less valuable to all levels of society; new data even suggests an ultra-clean home may not be the best environment for children. According to anthropologists at Northwestern University, a lack of exposure to dirt and germs could put them at increased risk for inflammation when they grow up. So next time, you feel bad about your messy home...
...pricey Swiss watch because Tiger is a pitchman? Probably not. But the company's initial skittishness doesn't bode well for Woods' Tag prospects. "They've already gotten their brand equity out of Tiger Woods," says Ben Sturner, founder and CEO of the Leverage Agency, a New York City-based sports-marketing firm. "He's not going to help them now." (Read "Can Golf Survive Without Tiger Woods...
...save some money and perhaps appease some shareholders by letting Tiger go. However, Woods reaches Gatorade's core market, the sports fans who emulate their heroes. The ones who, as the company famously framed it in the early '90s, want to "be like Mike." If Tiger rebounds, a whole new generation of fans will want to be like Tiger. Gatorade can't lose them...
...dining, the hotel offers the Spice Market (a branch of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's New York eatery, serving dishes inspired by Asian street food) or W Kitchen (another Vongerichten creation), but the neighborhood is packed with good, cheap eateries. You'll definitely want to skip the overpriced and frugal hotel breakfast and head instead to nearby Besiktas Market where Kaymakci Pando, a popular hole-in-the-wall, has been serving up a traditional Turkish spread of buffalo cream, honey, fresh bread, olives and eggs for nearly as long as the Akaretler Row Houses have been around. It's good...
Turkey maintains some 35,000 troops in the north but the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan recognizes that divided Cyprus is a potential embarrassment to its new-found ambitions to become a regional power. It also threatens to derail Ankara's long-standing -albeit slow-moving - bid to join the European Union. The E.U. has frozen discussions on eight of the 35 policy chapters towards membership since December 2006 to punish the Turks for not opening their ports and airspace to Cypriot vessels as required. At a summit last week, the E.U. agreed to open just...