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...this year's meeting, Richard Branson grabbed headlines by pledging to invest all future proceeds of his Virgin Group's airline and train businesses to fight global warming. But other commitments with smaller budgets were similarly designed to have a real impact. The Global Partnership for Afghanistan pledged to launch 100 commercially viable orchard and woodlot businesses. The Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation partnered with child-rights activist Craig Kielburger to "adopt a village" in the Masai Mara of Kenya. With an investment of only $68,000 in the first year, they will help change the lives of 1,000 children...
...Desperanians carry their complicated histories theatrically large-and none more so than the Phantoms of westside Pricklebush. There's matriarch Angel Day, who drags a statue of the Virgin Mary from the town dump, igniting a clan war in the process; her fish embalmer husband Norm, who dreams of the Gulf's mythical grouper hole; their rebel son Will, who violently opposes the local mine; and his mentor, Mozzie Fishman, who leads convoys of similarly disenchanted souls (and later Angel Day) to Dreaming sites across the state. Around them swirl stories large and small, glorious and grotesque, of epic quests...
...entire match will be sponsored-and broadcast over the Internet-by Golden Palace Casino, which in the past has concocted marketing campaigns for oddities like Britney Spears? pregnancy test, William Shatner?s kidney stone, and the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Says Golden Palace Marketing director Drew Black: "This was just a perfect fit-what filmmaker is going to take their critics to the point to say, you don?t like me, put up your dukes...
This year alone BCBG opened stores in New York City (where there will be five by the end of the year); Indianapolis, Ind.; Charlotte, N.C.; Bordeaux, France; Valencia, Spain; and Athens, among other cities. Still to come: Albuquerque, N.M.; Woodland, Texas; Wailea, Hawaii; the Virgin Islands; Lisbon; Brussels; and more. "The world map looks smaller than ever before. In 2007 Europe will be very big. We're accelerating that, based on my acquisition of strategic brands," says Azria, referring to designer retailers Alain Manoukian and Don Algodôn and French couturier Hervé Léger. "We're fantastic in Asia because...
...experts on nutrition and health agree that it's wise to consume a variety of fruits and vegetables and that it's particularly important to include such polyphenol-rich foods as red wine, green tea, dark chocolate and extra-virgin olive oil, in addition to berries and pomegranates. I like them all, but the question is whether any one source offers advantages over all others...