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...international exposure has been limited. But Felix Quinn, who opened Britain's first Kinkade gallery nearly two years ago, believes they are entirely justified. With nearly $1 million in turnover during his initial year in business, he more than doubled his financial target. A former door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, Quinn discovered Kinkade's art during a 1998 visit to San Diego. He purchased a few pieces for his own collection and was soon hooked. "Once you have a piece and you make that commitment, you want another one," he explains. "Art is based on that." Quinn does...
...Vacuum Tubes to Nanotubes...
Transporting the chickens by plane would work, but the freight bill would push the price of a three-piece dinner into the realm of surf and turf. After two hours of e-mail, phone and fax consultations, Youstin has a solution: vacuum-pack the chicken, for a small additional cost, and keep it fresh enough to survive the extra four days of shipping. From the corporate headquarters, Youstin can quickly access the company's experts and key decision makers to craft a timely fix. Explains her boss, international COO Anthony Pavese: "We are ground zero. We have centralized the information...
...looked like a bad hostage standoff, the cheap fare of Southern California TV, was about to be played out in the Balkans. All day on Saturday, Milosevic and his minions remained squirreled away as the government formulated a plan and as TV cameras watched from a distance. In that vacuum, events spilled easily into farce. Loyalists, mostly elderly socialists for whom Milosevic represents patriotic Serbian ideals, built themselves a bonfire to ward off the chill, scrawling the names of their imagined enemies--Solana (Javier, the NATO Secretary-General), Klark (Wesley Clark, the retired U.S. general) and Monika (Lewinsky, presumably...
...Clear all those hurdles, and there's still the fact that donors abhor a vacuum. McCain has been the first to admit that soft money was already supposed to be illegal - making it illegal again won't change the fact that it won't be long before lawyers and money, like nature, will find a way back in to the political process...