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...British Retail Think Tank. But that's changing. U.S. firm Muzak used to be the butt of jokes for its bland elevator music, but it now supplies some 400,000 shops, restaurants and hotels around the world - including Gap, McDonald's and Burger King - with songs tailored to reflect their identity. "What we're trying to capture is a brand's essence," says Bob Finigan, Muzak's vice president of product and marketing. "We express the intangibles of a brand's identity - their company values, their position in the market - through the emotional power of music...
...arrive at easily or without some angst, and it raises a multitude of questions. Are women too unrealistic about marriage--so picky about men that they're denying themselves and society the benefits of marriage while they pursue an impossible ideal? Does the rejection of marriage by more women reflect a widening gender gap--as daughters of the women's movement discover that men, all too often, have a far less liberated view of the wife's role in marriage? Do the burgeoning ranks of single women mean an outbreak of Sex and the City promiscuity? And what about children...
Even women who generally reflect on their choices with assurance find themselves sometimes in the valley of what-ifs: What if I made the wrong choice to walk away? What if singlehood turns out to be not a temporary choice but an enforced state? "My sister knows that I'm good for a call every couple of months just crying, 'What's wrong with me?'" says Henneberry. "I'm not willing to accept someone who's going to make me unhappy. But there are days when I have a physical need to go to sleep and wake up with someone...
...About a decade ago he made a hypnotic documentary about Dengler's exploits, entitled Little Dieter Needs to Fly. In it, Dengler returned to the scenes of his Laotian exploits and recounted them in the matter of fact way that heroes so often affect when they are encouraged to reflect on their pasts. Now, in Rescue Dawn, Herzog offers a fictionalized account of the same story, which seems to me somewhat less compelling than the documentary...
Under the current system, applicants to the 12 schools are divided into two categories: those who are eligible for the federal free lunch program and those who are not. Each school must, within a certain margin, reflect the district's overall socioeconomic characteristics. Parents are able to rank their top three choices, but because each school must fit inside a certain range, a number of students each year do not receive one of their top choices...