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Still, sociologists who study teens say the rules are also a by-product of the hyperprotective parenting characteristic of baby boomers. "There's a disconnect between all this regulating and the dangers kids actually face," says Barbara Risman, head of the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She says the strictures have a downside: "Taking away the ability to exercise choices might not allow teens to learn to make decisions and live with the consequences...
...implore the desk clerk at your hotel, or perform some congenial act on an assistant producer. Cannes is a convention for movie professionals. Besides the movies chosen by programmers and critics, there's a free-for-all Film Market where anyone can rent a screening room and peddle his product to distributors and reviewers. Some are here to buy, some to sell; others, like the 4,000 journalists, come to get the word on Cannes and its movies to a waiting world. Whatever our specific functions, we cheerfully connive in promoting the medium and ourselves...
...early returns are positive. In the U.S., Adidas' soccer-footwear sales are up 23% over last year. Globally, Adidas "has production problems right now, demand [for the Tunit] is so high," says Klaus Filbry, head of soccer for Adidas America. A starter kit, including one set of uppers, an insole and three sets of studs, costs $170, but the real revenue potential for Adidas, and retailers, lies in the add-ons: $80 for each extra upper and $40 for an additional insole. Adidas is about to launch 32 new uppers, with the colors and imprints of each World Cup nation...
When General Motors asked Bob Lutz to revive its product line in 2001, the thinking was that if anyone could do it, he was the man. The charismatic, brash ex-Marine fighter pilot had led the development at Chrysler of such hot cars as the Dodge Viper and PT Cruiser, and he wasn't shy about criticizing GM for cranking out the dullest metal in Detroit...
...Lutz's product revival, meanwhile, is yielding some decent cars with interiors that don't feel like Cracker Jack toys. The Saturn Sky won't save the brand but provides much needed zing. Edmunds.com calls it "Maria Sharapova at a tennis match full of middle-aged and badly dressed men." Lutz vows that design will no longer take a backseat to sales and marketing. A forthcoming Cadillac will be a model dreamed up by a design team and pitched to senior execs instead of the other way around. A 2007 Saturn sedan, the Aura, with an exterior designed in Germany...