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...risk of sounding like some Ivy League tool who believes he’s discovered the fundamental unity of mankind and relays his epiphany to the world through wildly uninformed observations taken down after just three weeks in a country, I think there is something reassuring in the idea that this expanding global community that seems to threaten the individuality of unique and vibrant societies has actually been around all along, and what is happening now is just the natural progression of things. At least, that is what I tell myself as Ronald McDonald watches me wash down my bulgogi...
...previous year. Perhaps the increase could be explained by consumer price sensitivity. In the same University of Michigan Consumer Index report, consumers expect an inflation rate of 5.6% over the next 12 months. Here's a new hypothesis: when economic times get tough, online shopping sites become an important tool to help consumers find the best price on potential purchases...
...brand companies that are selling online expect their total sales to jump 111% within five years, by which point they will account for 22% of total sales. And selling on the web can help boost a company's brick-and-mortar sales, too. "It's our most powerful marketing tool and a significant driver of store traffic," says David Duplantis, the senior vice president who oversees web sales for Coach, the American leather goods manufacturer. Coach.com receives 60 million visits a year, and 40% of Coach customers say they view products online before making in-store purchases...
...creations of oddball loners like Millar scribbling at drafting tables have also become the movie industry's most reliable development tool. Thanks to the box-office success of A-list superheroes like Spider-Man and the X-Men, Hollywood's appetite for comics-fueled material is insatiable. Titles from the darker corners of the genre, including gritty graphic novels like Wanted and Alan Moore's watershed deconstructivist superhero tome Watchmen are getting the big-screen makeover. Stories and characters first written for an audience of a few hundred thousand geeks at most are reaching, at the box office...
...borrow a SmartBike, users have to be over 18 and have a credit card. An annual fee of $40 lets riders tool around on a three-speed bike as often as they like for up to three hours at a time. Better be punctual: your second tardy return gets you booted from the system. The program keeps track of the bikes via tiny rfid chips, the same tamper-proof radio-frequency devices used to monitor everything from clothing inventories to office ID badges. Riders use a swipe card to unlock the bikes, and if they fail to return them...