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...industries. It will be very expensive, with a low probability of success and very little real scientific value. The same goes for the International Space Station and the Star Wars missile-defense program. It's time we demand real results and use common sense to control reckless, wasteful, political-payoff spending. Truman Hunter Oxford...
...marketers are predicting that the new contrast look will make a killing. French label TantPourElle, which this year added a riot of color and texture to its normally simple, monotone line?including a multihued pinstripe button-down shirt with a sheer black chiffon back?expects to see a big payoff, especially in China. "Chinese like colors and more fancy details," explains the label's marketing director, Priscilla Chow, who emphasizes her point by rubbing her fingers against the rough lacy trim of one of its soft polyester dresses. "They are willing to pay more for their clothes now?but they...
...marketers are predicting that the new contrast look will make a killing. French label TantPourElle, which this year added a riot of color and texture to its normally simple, monotone line - including a multihued pinstripe button-down shirt with a sheer black chiffon back - expects to see a big payoff, especially in China. "Chinese like colors and more fancy details," explains the label's marketing director, Priscilla Chow, who emphasizes her point by rubbing her fingers against the rough lacy trim of one of its soft polyester dresses. "They are willing to pay more for their clothes now - but they...
...Samurai for three days already," said vendor Nook (not his real name). At his booth, just 50 yards from an official Warner Bros. store, Samurai was available with Thai, Chinese or Bahasa Indonesia subtitles. Business has improved, Nook says, since police stopped shaking him down for a monthly $60 payoff. Now he pays just $150 a year for an official ID card. Piracy has become so normalized that it has its own bureaucracy. Two days later, a reporter bought Samurai in Shanghai. The shopkeeper, who introduced himself as Mr. Wang, displayed thousands of pirated DVDs--from Hitchcock to Schwarzenegger...
...Wong sat transfixed before a computer monitor, watching stock prices and anxiously awaiting her big payoff. Shares of vegetable grower China Green Holdings began trading for the first time on Jan. 13, and Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter, was one of the lucky few who had obtained shares of the hot China stock at its initial public offering (IPO) price of 16?. That was no easy task, since retail investors ordered 1,604 times more shares than China Green had undertaken to sell, making it the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history. On the opening...