Word: urbanization
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...ideas that will revolutionize our definition of luxury. Donna Karan has always drawn on her personal needs for inspiration. She started her company in 1984 with a creative solution for stressed-out working women: a wardrobe system, Seven Easy Pieces. Now she's broadening her vision with the Urban Zen initiative, looking for alternative-therapy solutions for patient care. Luxury comes in all shapes: Spanx founder Sara Blakely's brand was born of her personal quest for a sleeker silhouette. Thirty-five-year-old business whiz Wen Zhou craved luxury but couldn't afford it, so she teamed up with...
...FRANCISCO John (Crash) Matos' tote for Sobella ($185) shows off his cool, urban style...
...United States does have a significant geographic disadvantage when compared to tiny countries with faster networks, like Sweden or the Netherlands. Stringing high-speed access to rural areas is much easier when your entire country is the size of Illinois. But while a significant access gap exists between urban and rural America, even the fastest regions of the U.S. (the northern Atlantic states) can’t crack the 10 megabits per second mark. South Korea’s average connection speed is over twice that fast...
...pair conducted 30 interviews in each country—speaking with youths, church members, hospital workers in urban China, peasants, people in hospitals in rural Peru—and found that in both bustling cities and pastoral villages, people were much more likely to use herbal remedies for relatively minor issues, like fevers and colds, but embraced Western medicine for more significant problems, like diabetes and arthritis...
...opportunity to reach out, what you want to do as an admissions officer is serve the public interest…it also would allow us to answer some of the questions most on people’s minds and try to demystify and demythologize so many urban legends about admissions,” Fitzsimmons told Flyby...