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...cases imported in 2006, an increase of 5 million cases since 1995, says Frank Walters, senior vice president of research at M. Shanken Communications, which publishes the authoritative trade magazine Impact. David Henkes, from market-trends company Technomic, says affluent boomers in particular are drawn to "the perceived status symbol of liqueurs and are shifting their spending toward the higher-priced products." But what's really driving the category, says Walters, are younger drinkers. They were first targeted by German producer Jägermeister, whose marketing team hired young women to stage promotional events in bars. In 2006 Jägermeister accounted...
...School, said Olivera’s work has the potential to “explain some behaviors...[and] help us treat and cure many diseases.” Marlowe A. Rillera ’09, co-president of the Harvard Philippine Forum, called the award “a symbol that Filipinos are getting out there and making a difference in the world.” SCIENTISTS OF TOMORROW On Saturday, over 70 children from Cambridge and Boston schools arrived at the Science Center to learn about science from Harvard professors, undergraduates, and teaching fellows. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences...
...diverse dance-inducing glory, but if the album proves anything, it’s the difficulty of successfully appropriating multiple influences to make something that both works and makes bodies work. From their name alone, !!! aspire to be all unexpected fun—or cultural pirates. The symbol ! is used to denote a mouth-click in the language of the Bushmen. !!! has co-opted the pronunciation to be “sound-sound-sound” —that is, insert any monosyllabic sound you like, be it bam-bam-bam, wo-wo-wo, or, the most well-known...
...comics—are apparent. It’s no coincidence that the source of the comic hero’s plight shares similarities with our government’s highly-polarizing Patriot Act, or that enemies of freedom (read: terrorists) were responsible for the assassination of this idealistic symbol of liberty...
...Adolf Hitler in 1941, was lauded by multiple U.S. presidents for his service to our country, and helped save the world countless times. Even for people like me, who haven’t read a comic book in 15 years, the name is iconic—a lasting symbol of devotion to one’s country...