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...Earth. The selection is atrocious (understandable in a former Dutch colony that has more than 350 languages and dialects of its own to cater to), and if you do manage to strike gold, chances are you won't be able to flip through your selections because they will be shrink-wrapped. But all that looks set to change with the success of Aksara (www.aksara.com). The independent bookseller is zeroing in on the niche markets of Jakarta's middle classes and catering to tastes once served only by retailers in nearby Singapore. With three stores in the Indonesian capital, Aksara...
...promise to make Australians comfortable and relaxed. Now he is trying to complete the job he set for himself so long ago. Howard seems to be hoping that the line he is about to draw across the country will inspire voters who feel they can be winners, and shrink the hearts of those who worry about the losers...
...case, says Plante, when new rules come down, he will soldier on. His entry into this line of consulting, he recalls, was a little like being an Army reservist: "They called: 'You're a shrink. You're Catholic. You can help us.' How do you say no?" And he notes that "there are a lot of things we don't agree with in the church, but we still identify as Catholic...
...what’s envisioned as your successor, Core, multitudinous choices and lack of focus will metastasize, not shrink. That important knowledge that might be a liberal arts education is, in truth, just a banal consortium of recommended “Harvard College Courses...
When I began spotting hybrids everywhere--even in the driveways of old-school ranchers who had always driven Cadillacs to town--I knew something profound was happening and in the least likely place for it to happen. Montanans were conserving gas? Impossible. It would be easier just to shrink the state...