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...decades, Beijing has lured Taiwanese investment to its shores hoping to make the island more economically beholden, and it's a strategy that has worked. In the 1980s, Taiwan's entire sneaker industry ignored a Taipei-imposed ban on investment, laced itself up and moved to the mainland. As China's economy boomed through the 1990s, the island's investments there rose steadily to current estimates of $45 billion. If Taipei hadn't lifted many of the restrictions, it was at risk of turning its top executives into a criminal caste...
...trendy items worn by Western fashion editors. Outside the Christian Dior show, a black, chauffeur-driven Mercedes pulls up to the curb. As the door opens, a flock of Japanese photographers (mostly male) and reporters (mostly female) gathers around the sassy blonde passenger, dressed in stripes and wearing sneaker-styled stilettos. This is not Kate Moss or Gwyneth Paltrow. This is Emer Paul, fashion editor of U.K. Glamour. "Can we get your picture please?" someone asks. Before she can reply, the photographers begin snapping - zooming in for close-ups of her bag, sunglasses and shoes, always the shoes. "My shirt...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...
...NIKE iD Here's a nifty thing to Just Do: Nike allows Web surfers to customize this sneaker online, selecting style, colors and lace types, even stamping the shoes with a personal ID code. Any bets on how long until you can pick your own sweatshop worker online...
...programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply for doing a couple of funny parodies of MasterCard and Monster.com spots. Both appealed smartly to voter cynicism about the major parties (and corporations), but neither outdid your average sneaker-company...