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...psychographics may not be that ominous after all. Scientific purists argue that market researchers aren't really getting inside people's minds--they're just manipulating ordinary shopping and demographic data to make it look that way. Carrie Hollenberg, a senior consultant at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence, says many companies have created psychographic types by merely "assigning a company's customers to various groups with colorful names and descriptions. That's not using true psychological traits to get into who people really are." Hollenberg's firm owns a personality-profiling system called VALS (values, attitudes and lifestyle survey) that...
...world in apocalyptic images, as they would the calamities that followed. Then, one after another, Asian currencies collapsed. In 1998, Indonesia was in chaos as the Suharto regime was brought down by street mobs; a year later, Ambon and East Timor were riven by appalling sectarian violence. Sri Lanka was rocked by waves of suicide bombers; in July 2001, Colombo's airport was hit. Then came 9/11, with anti-American demonstrations in its aftermath. Last October, bombs in Bali killed 202 people and wiped out much of what was left of tourism there. By early 2003, Burma was a recrudescent...
...visas on arrival, why should we make it easy for them? (It remains unclear when the new regulation will go into effect, if ever.) Travel advisories posted by the U.S. and other governments have also had a long-term dampening effect on the markets in Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and elsewhere...
...Rules (confetti.co.uk) Do Your Homework Don't know the differences between a blessing ceremony, a religious wedding and a civil union? This site provides comprehensive descriptions, along with requirements in Thailand, Bali and Sri Lanka. It also describes some recently invented modes of marriage...
Another kind of SRI fund, however, is in the news. Last week Wal-Mart said it will suspend sales of several men's magazines, including Maxim, FHM and Stuff (see Essay). Officially, the retailing giant pulled the plug after "customers around the country" complained that the boobs-and-booze monthlies made them "uncomfortable." In fact, the move came after a grass-roots campaign orchestrated largely by a mutual-fund manager...