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Depending on whom you ask, however, Valvo may have been the flavor of the past decadeand counting. His less expensive Collection line is the top eveningwear seller at Neiman Marcus, for instance, while his higher-end shutter-pleat dress has pulled in more than $4 million in sales. Making time for his runway show: Neiman Marcus Group CEO Burt Tansky, Saks vice chairman Ron Frasch and Bergdorf Goodman CEO Jim Gold...
...self-described "Bible-believing, conservative Christian," Kingsbury has written 22 novels, seven currently on the Christian best-seller list. She has more than 2 million books in print. With her popularity and prolific output, she is developing into the Nora Roberts of the religious set. That has not escaped the notice of mainstream publishers, many of which are trying to cash in on the ever burgeoning religious market. Last summer she was signed by Center Street, a new imprint of Time Warner Book Group (like TIME, a division of Time Inc.), which the company says will release "wholesome" books targeted...
...bookstore, including one that boasts "over 900 wedding gowns" on its cover and another that is 810 pages long? Why else would there be dozens of dating books with titles like How to Make a Man Fall in Love with You, Why Men Love Bitches and the current best seller for truly masochistic single gals, He's Just Not That into You? We claim that The Rules is silly, but most bachelorettes I know have at least skimmed it for pointers...
...London springs to mind, but, as Wynhausen acknowledges, this compelling inside account has a more recent precursor. In 1998, American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set off for low-wage America, posing as a housewife newly returned to work and taking whatever unskilled jobs she could get for her best-seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Inspired to try the same thing in Australia, Wynhausen took a year off work, invented a c.v. and started knocking on doors...
...worry. That complacency is both understandable and dangerous. "A problem in a remote part of the world becomes a world problem overnight," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week. If so, the blind faith of a Cambodian chicken seller in the preventative powers of sunlight and local earth should be ample cause for international concern...