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...middle-aged German couple who love and collect art. In early July they traveled to this remote cove in northeastern Spain to visit the creator in his studio. They toured his inner sanctum in appreciative silence. They marveled at his unusual materials, his precise execution, his sheer ingenuity. And then, like everyone else at El Bulli, they sat down and ate the master's work...
...industry is being targeted unfairly," says Patrick Racz, CEO of Icelandic Water. For one thing, bottled water weans consumers off soda. "People are making a substitution when they go to the fridge, so instead of getting a cola drink, they're getting a bottle of water." But the sheer speed with which bottled water is growing puts the industry under greater scrutiny. On the defensive, the International Bottled Water Association took out full-page newspaper ads on Aug. 3 touting the health benefits of drinking water...
...Hitwise tracks 3,098 educational reference sites, and Wikipedia accounted for over 30% of visits to all sites in the category. Even more intriguing is the interdependence between Wikipedia and Google. Wikipedia is the second most visited site from Google searches (MySpace.com is number one), due mostly to the sheer volume and prominent placement of Wikipedia listings in Google search-engine results. Google is responsible for 46% of Wikipedia's traffic. How could Jimbo possibly best Google, which was, according to Hitwise, responsible for 64.4% of all Internet searches in the U.S. last week...
...vastly overpaid for glamorous properties, like Rockefeller Center. "I don't expect China to go in for trophy properties," says JPMorgan's Ulrich. "They know the lesson of the Japanese debacle." That said, she concedes, the odds are that Chinese companies will make mistakes of their own, given the sheer volume of deals to come. "This," she says, "has only just begun...
...epicurean delight. "I never thought we'd get a stand here," admits Oriol Ibars, one of four partners in the Pazzta venture. Speaking reverently of the culinary cathedral he had visited each Saturday with his father from age two, he adds, "It was a far-fetched dream." By sheer luck they happened onto Don Jaime's fruit and vegetable stand when he had to put it up for sale, but they had to wait a full year to gain approval from the market's archaic administration - largely controlled by the local families who have sold produce here for more than...