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...Lausanne is a hilly town and the harbor, called Ouchy, lies at its foot. On sunny days locals flock here to stroll along the lake the Swiss know as Lac Léman. From here a 20-minute walk takes you to Vidy, a vast park with a smaller harbor. These shores bear vestiges of Roman presence dating back to 4500 B.C., with well-preserved ruins scattered along lakeside paths...
...STREETWISE Jogging: Vidy Park. A myriad of paths along the lake and through the vast park are popular with runners. But beware of considerable bicycle and rollerblade traffic...
...explanation for the Japanese generation gap could lay in the tastes of fashionable Japan. Although Japanese consumers buy the vast majority of Yamamoto, Miyake and Comme des GarCons merchandise, they are fascinated with what the Western world is wearing. The stock of international fashion conglomerates like LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and the Gucci Group can rise or fall depending on the strength of the yen and the Japanese economy. With good reason: Japanese shoppers account for some 32% of Gucci and more than 45% of Louis Vuitton brand sales. Japanese consumers, says Gucci CEO Domenico De Sole, "like brands...
...York the first sushi bar opened its doors in 1963. But it wasn't until the '90s that New Yorkers truly discovered the vast world of Japanese cuisine that lay beyond raw fish on a rice ball - and began to make it their...
...entertainment industry has vastly changed in recent years. Television advertisement costs have tripled over the last two decades; movie production costs have plummeted. And yet the formulas used to decide the “residuals” that fall to writers have not kept up. When the residual formulas for basic cable networks were drawn up in the early 1980s, cable companies were in their infancy. Today, over 70 percent of American households have basic cable, and five major cable companies now out-profit the small “weblet” networks—UPN, Fox and WB?...