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...CORPORATE MANAGEMENT It's a Quick Trip Down from the Top "so long, it's been good to know yuh," Woody Guthrie wrote in a 1935 song about migrants during the Great Depression. But now the refrain applies equally well to ceos, whose stays at the top are getting shorter. The career of Luc Vandevelde, 51, right, the Belgian ceo of Marks & Spencer, is a typical case: after joining the company two years ago and helping reverse its decline, he stepped aside last week. A study by consultancy DBM shows that the median tenure...
...Barneys and a noted style sultan. "I could see Carrie Bradshaw wearing one in Sex and the City with a pair of Blahniks." Kournikova's Adidas skort is already in stores ($45). Be warned, though: the new styles are low-slung with a very short skirt covering slightly shorter shorts; if you have thigh-esteem problems, stick to capris...
...December 6, 1973, it was snowing, and I took a shortcut through the cornfield back from the junior high. It was dark out because the days were shorter in winter, and I remember how the broken cornstalks made my walk more difficult. The snow was falling lightly, like a flurry of small hands, and I was breathing through my nose until it was running so much that I had to open my mouth. Six feet from where Mr. Harvey stood, I stuck my tongue out to taste a snowflake...
...parents giving up daughters for adoption without registering their birth. But population experts at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing estimate that up to one-third of the girls are missing because of gender-based abortions. Rural Chinese women also tend to breast-feed girls for shorter periods, providing less hope for survival. Chinese demographers estimate that in some rural areas, 80% of children from ages 5 to 10 are boys...
...workers in other countries from Israel to Mexico--still work a six-day week. Korea's labor unions are negotiating with employer groups to give a two-day weekend to the rest of the work force--a measure supported by the government, which may introduce legislation to make a shorter workweek mandatory. South Korea's plan to adopt a five-day workweek is seen as another sign that it is becoming a global economic player that no longer needs an extra day to catch up with its trading partners. The longer weekend is expected to boost Korea's leisure businesses...