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...century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Berlin's art scene is booming, with droves of foreign artists and dealers setting up shop in the city. Uta Baier and Gerhard Charles Rump, art critics at the Berlin-based daily Die Welt, gave us the lowdown on their favorite venues. Künstlerhaus Bethanien The best thing about this former deaconesses' home in the hip Kreuzberg district, says Rump, is its presentation of artists...
European retailers sure didn't have a holly jolly Christmas. The annual end-of-year shopping orgy can account for as much as 40% of a retailer's annual sales, but most of the tallying so far has left the big stores crying "Bah, humbug." And the bad news kicked in even earlier. British supermarket chain J Sainsbury last week said its same-store sales, excluding gasoline, fell 1.2% in the third quarter. Two months earlier, the company had declared a $72.5 million pretax loss for the first half - the first loss in its 135-year history...
...After she finally graduated from Columbia College in Chicago (major: undeclared) in 2001, she moved to Portland, Ore., and went to work as a nanny and as an assistant to a wedding photographer. A year later she jumped back to Chicago, where she got a job in a flower shop. It was a full-time position with real benefits, but she soon burned out and headed for the territories, a.k.a. Madison, Wis. "I was really busy but not accomplishing anything," she says. "I didn't want to stay just...
SARGENT: Three years ago, it was 8% of our sales. Today it is 15%. There's not a lot of brand recognition in our industry. Now we're testing selling office supplies at Kroger and Stop & Shop. Down the road, I'd like for Staples to be the national-brand office product...
Berlin's art scene is booming, with droves of foreign artists and dealers setting up shop in the city. Uta Baier and Gerhard Charles Rump, art critics at the Berlin-based daily Die Welt, gave us the lowdown on their favorite venues...