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...competitive edge. Juvéderm will roll out in January. Medicis' Perlane won't be available until the middle of next year; Reloxin isn't expected until early 2008. Shacknai isn't too worried. He expects that market leader Restylane will hold on to its share of the filler segment and its near 90% profit margins. "We're the leading filler and have lots of pioneering products coming to market," he says. "Eventually, we will be able to meet every need for filling the face...
...scary Pakistani-type madrassas, where rows of boys sit on the floor memorizing the Koran and the alumni all died at Tora Bora. The first minutes captured the class making ritual ablutions before prayer, followed by scenes of them actually praying together in the classroom, and finally, a lively segment of them practicing the call to prayer. Noting my horrified look, my friend explained that "public schools here are really much better these days." Much better, apparently, means that alongside Islamic indoctrination, kids also receive an hour of music lessons a week, their textbooks include color pictures, and teachers...
...whether Americans had enough in common to form a united nation at all--and they were far more homogeneous than we are, and there were only about 4 million of them. It took 100 years to get to 50 million. We reached 100 million in 1915, when the largest segment of the foreign-born population came from Germany. We reached 200 million in 1967, when the largest portion of foreign-born Americans came from Italy. Today that largest segment is from Mexico. We are now less of a melting pot--the great assimilation metaphor of the 1950s--and more...
Another element of VW's strategy involves heading downmarket, reversing a silly foray into the luxury segment with its $68,000-plus Phaeton sedan, which flopped. The company has slashed sticker prices on the Jetta (lowered $1,400, to $16,500) and Rabbit ($1,000, to $15,000), hoping to recover profits with higher volume. And future models won't contain as many standard features, according to Hallmark. The idea is to produce cars that can compete more effectively in the midmarket. Designing cars for the local competitive landscape is precisely what the Japanese have done for decades, of course...
...Cheesecake Factory menu, this series strives to offer a bit of everything: it's a cooking show, a travelogue, a history and anthropology show. Each episode hopscotches to a new country, visiting restaurants and homes, chatting up average people and experts on food's role in the culture. A segment on international ingredients with Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl is a little elementary-- to viewers raised on the Food Network, oyster sauce is no longer exotic--but the show is a fast, info-packed study in how the world comes to your plate...