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Rolando Hortaleza BEAUTY KING He used his wedding-gift cash to start his cosmetics company in a garage 20 years ago, and he had to bribe Manila's sidewalk vendors to sell his products, but since then, Hortaleza, CEO of Splash Corp., has cleaned up well. His firm's revenues have jumped 66%, to $90 million, over the past two years, and Splash now exports face cleansers and skin toners to more than 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East. A medical-school graduate, Hortaleza, 45, is returning to his health roots: Splash has joined the booming market...
...late-summer afternoon on Larchmont Boulevard in Los Angeles' leafy Hancock Park neighborhood, and small clusters of girls gathered in front of Jamba Juice are sweeping the sidewalk with their floor-length skirts. Their T shirts are oversize and piled on in layers. And their sunglasses, with lenses nearly the size of CDs, cover their teenage faces. On the next block, boys with shaggy hair below their ears, wearing rock T shirts from bands that were performing before most of their parents could drive, practice tricks on skateboards...
...know how many spike-heel-swallowing sidewalk cracks, ankle-turning potholes, skirt-splashing puddles, and treacherous patches of new cement that...
Students no longer stroll along the much-traversed sidewalk between Thayer Hall and Memorial Church, now closed off from traffic by tall, mesh-covered chain-link fences. The walkway is just one of the parts in and around Harvard Yard that has fallen victim to summer construction...
...wind as the cable cars whisk over the city’s characteristic steep hills. Fisherman’s Wharf was just as tourist-filled as the Yard but worth the experience simply to watch the unique street performers. The Bushman, a man disguised as a bush on the sidewalk, was my favorite; periodically he jumped out and scared pedestrians walking...