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...solidify the point that the dog has emerged--above expensive restaurants, home furnishings and even security--as the status symbol of the times, Martha Stewart's company will launch this fall a weekly pet-keeping show with Marc Marrone as host. No one in the canine cognoscenti will want to miss the episode on how to brush a dog's teeth. --Reported by Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Deirdre van Dyk/New York
...Tasaday story created an immediate sensation, first as an allegory representing our yearning for a more peaceful, simpler time and then as a symbol of our own gullibility. In 1971, as a terrible war dragged on in Southeast Asia, a Stone Age tribe was discovered living in total seclusion in the Philippine rain forest. The Tasaday were gentle folk whose language lacked even a word for war. They dressed in loincloths and skirts made of orchid leaves, slept in picturesque caves and lived off the land on a diet consisting of fruit, fish and insects. NBC Evening News broke...
APPLE PIE. A symbol of motherhood, but you probably have no time to make one. Purchase a pie, put it in the oven till authentically burnt at the edges, then sprinkle on sugar for that "homemade" look...
...humvee is the ultimate symbol of America's military and cultural hegemony...
...focuses on mobile handsets, which fly off the shelves at a rate of 500,000 a day. The Nokia-Ericsson rivalry has an added intensity; it's hard to overstate the national importance of Ericsson. Founded in 1876, it was for many years Sweden's largest business, and a symbol of the nation's remarkable agility in the high-tech arena. But the pride of Swedish industry and the country's leading exporter has become a penny stock. Kurt Hellström, whom Svanberg replaced last month, slashed the workforce from...