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...developing countries. Consider China and India, the world's two most populous nations. Food spending in China is expected to grow 6.7% annually over the next 20 years, making the country one of the world's fastest-growing food markets, according to the McKinsey Quarterly. And in India, urban shoppers are spending more on food, groceries and personal-care items than ever before; the average monthly expenditure on these purchases jumped 14% in 2005 from 2004. According to ACNielsen, 47% of consumers' shopping baskets was devoted to fresh food in 2005, up from...
...domestic agenda. His maiden Diet speech contained a lot of rhetoric about the need to make Japan a "beautiful country" without mentioning specific, results-oriented policy initiatives that were a hallmark of Koizumi's administration. "He talks about economic revitalization and closing the gap between urban and rural regions, but he insists on cutting public spending," says Nihon University's Iwai. "There are certain inherent contradictions in what he says, and he hasn't addressed them." Adds Etsushi Tanifuji, director of the Institute for Research in Contemporary Political and Economic Affairs at Waseda University: "We'll see Abe's competence...
...turn a profit. But J.N. also had a patrician vision of spreading wealth and lifting a nation. In a 1902 letter to his son about building a workers' city around his Tata Steel works, he deplored the squalor of industrial England and anticipated what would become a standard for urban planning: "Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees ... Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens." After his death in 1904, the city took his name, becoming Jamshedpur. Tata Steel introduced a series of worker benefits that would become common only much later...
Grammy winner KEITH URBAN checked into rehab for alcohol abuse last week with wife NICOLE KIDMAN by his side. Her presence is noteworthy because in the run-up to the megacouple's wedding in June, there was much speculation about whether they had signed a prenuptial agreement specifying that Urban--an admitted cocaine user who went into rehab in 1998--would get nada if he fell off the wagon. "One can never let one's guard down on recovery, and I'm afraid that I have," the country singer said in a written statement last week. "I deeply regret...
...Benkreira arrived at Harvard, he once again found himself in a unique situation.The vast majority of college rowers are white, hailing from prestigious East Coast prep schools, Europe or Australia, and occasionally the American Midwest.Benkreira, a black oarsman who earned his rowing stripes at a public school program in urban Washington, D.C., hardly fit the typical billing.“My freshman year I was the only black kid in the boathouse,” he says.Once again, Benkreira was present at the forefront of change sweeping across his school’s crew program. There are now two black...