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...tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done by hand) to put together. For a donation of just $10,000 or more, you too can own this Guinness record-breaking literary creation. All proceeds will go to a charity founded by Hawley called Friendly Planet, which builds and supports schools in Bhutan and Cambodia. Hawley, director of special projects at MIT and a faculty member at the famed Media Lab for 10 years, says he received about two dozen orders even before the book was launched. Guess there must a market for really...
Hong Kong is one of the most intriguing political experiments on the planet. For nearly seven years the city of 6.8 million people has been under the reign?but not the reins?of communist China. It is governed by its own people under British-bequeathed laws, and its "one country, two systems" trial has largely succeeded. Life goes on as it did before 1997?hectic, laissez-faire, ultra-capitalistic. Very, very few people complain about being citizens of the People's Republic...
...support systems than it has done preventing nuclear proliferation, terrorism or the piracy of Britney Spears CDs. The answer, according to James Gustave Speth's book, which has the quiet, seething tone of an insider who believed in the system but witnessed only steady decline, is that a habitable planet is a prerequisite for dealing with all the other problems...
BYRNE: I also believe in the financials, names like Lehman Bros., which just reported earnings above expectations, and Bear Stearns, which is one of the best-managed companies on the planet. A number of the health-care companies are attractive. I don't know whether we will have a national purchasing system of drugs. From my viewpoint, it's irrelevant. Drug prices would come down with controls, but usage would soar. That's the nature of the business for Pfizer and Merck, both of which I find attractive. I want companies that no matter what happens, they would be able...
...Christian Dior's fall '04 show. Fashionistas aren't the only ones slipping them on; they have also won fans among teens and hipsters in Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City and Dallas. "You see dozens of pairs of them at rockabilly shows," says Kathy Schriever, owner of Dallas' Planet Sole, one of a handful of stores in the city that carry creepers. The shoes are being snapped up by both men and women. Celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch sees the return of the clunky shoes as "the beginning of a move toward androgyny." Says Bloch: "For the past few seasons...