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...TEACH A MAN TO SURF...
Those demographics have spawned a marketing frenzy. Hispanic-targeted advertising more than doubled, to $3.4 billion, from 1997 to 2003, according to the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies. P&G spending has jumped 80% since 1997. Unilever, whose household brands like Surf detergent compete directly with P&G's, says it will triple its Hispanic advertising and promotional budget in 2005. General Electric, Telemundo's parent company, has identified Spanish-language TV as a strategic growth area. (Univision and Telemundo used to be the sole TV options. There are now 67 Spanish-language cable networks, from ESPN Deportes...
...upper floor. Families were torn apart, lovers separated forever, by the merciless waves that made no distinction between rich and poor, famous and unknown. A British woman in Phuket was swept away while buying suntan lotion. An Austrian woman who used a wheelchair was carried off by the surf. British film director Richard Attenborough lost his 14-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, in Phuket. Attenborough's daughter, Jane Holland, 49, and her mother-in-law are missing. So is British fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25. Nemcova suffered...
...heartwarming tales of survival--of children reunited with their parents after days spent apart--were overlaid with grief. Marko Karkkainen, a Swedish man hospitalized by injuries, discovered that his toddler son Hannes Bergstroem had survived the catastrophe. After a Thai villager had rescued the boy from the raging surf, an American couple found him wrapped in blankets on a hill. But the boy's mother remained among the missing. While there were plenty of stories of heroism and sacrifice, there were less comforting tales too. Within a few hours of the tsunami's hitting Thailand, there was widespread looting...
...think of Firefox as a stocking stuffer, or a present for the oft-overlooked ninth night of Hanukkah. While you’re sitting around over break with nothing to do but dream about how relaxed you’d be if Harvard adopted a reasonable academic calendar, surf over to http://www.mozilla.org in Internet Explorer and download Firefox on me (isn’t my generosity laudable?): It may well be the last page you visit in Explorer. And if you like it, note that it makes a nice cheap gift to give to your friends, and one they?...