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...more bears, as well as reindeer, foxes, ermines and half-meter-long trout. We would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places on earth...
...company ended its relationship last year with its longtime outside-buying organization and hired hundreds of that firm's employees to start rounding up fruit and salmon from South America and $6 billion a year in goods from China--everything from clothing to televisions to fans. Wal-Mart has opened 21 offices around the world to oversee its factories...
People have been traveling to Scotland for centuries - but never for the food. While Scottish beef, game, salmon and shellfish are prized by top chefs the world over, you are more likely to enjoy the best stuff in Madrid than in Edinburgh, because the lucrative export market consumes the best produce. The nation's cooking has long been a source of dismay to food-loving visitors and locals alike. But now a new generation of culinary bravehearts is transforming Scotland's gastronomic landscape. The notoriously sniffy Michelin guide awarded a star to two new restaurants in 2002, bringing the total...
...dead-girl motif surfaced most poetically in publishing's surprise sensation of the year, Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. In its bravura opening, the narrator, Susie Salmon, lucidly describes her brutal rape-murder at age 14, then goes on (telling the story from heaven) to show us the slow journey of her family and friends to recover from her loss. (This is not only a 2002 phenomenon, of course. The Sixth Sense and Crossing Over with John Edward both indulged our need to believe that our lost ones are still aware and, more important, still aware of us.) Women...
...more than off-the-rack items. Jupiter Research found in a recent study that more than half of consumers were willing to pay $10 extra to custom-order a pair of $50 slacks--but not much more. "The economy's bad," says Madison Riley of retail consultants Kurt Salmon Associates. "But if it's not going to stop people spending, they'll make for darn sure what they do spend is on the best quality...