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...brand catches on, it will do more than powder Avon's nose. According to the company, 17 million young women in the U.S. spend at least $75 billion a year on beauty and fashion. Avon hopes the new line, which goes global in 2005, will ring up $100 million in sales in its first year. So far more than 16,000 reps have distributed 25 million Mark catalogs, which featured MTV VJs and the pop singer Jewel on the first two covers...
...Japan: Niseko Higashiyama Prince Hotel On Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost (and snowiest) island, Niseko boasts some of the world's best powder skiing, with three diverse ski areas?plenty to keep skiers busy for a full week. The hotel, a comfortable modern complex at the base of the slopes, offers six-day lodging and meal packages for $1,350, including lift passes but not transportation...
...farmers who come for batteries, kerosene and groceries can often buy only on credit. But these are minor irritations. Singham looks around the store in wonder at the blue bottles of kerosene stacked over the red bottles of oil, the sacks of rice, and the colorful satchels of malt powder festooning the doorway: "I never thought it would be possible to come back here...
...Holy Roller who came and tried to strangle my dog.” She thinks for a moment. “We had a woman come in and say that it was blasphemous to call a store Goddess.” She shrugs and hands me a card, powder pink, which advertises her insights into “past-life regressions...
...said the Balkans are a “powder keg,” in Greece’s backyard, and commented that he’s far more worried about escalation of conflict in Kosovo than about the war in Iraq...