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...about being intimate and unique,? he said, surveying the new two-story store, filled with handmade furs and trendy Spy bags. These days redefining luxury has become an art form as innovative purveyors of high-end products try to ride the vicissitudes of an unpredictable stock market and weather even more unpredictable global events. In the past five years, we've seen bling-bling luxury evolve into more personal luxury. Now there's small-scale luxury...
MADDEN NFL 06 The 300-LB. linebacker of sports franchises, Madden shoulders its way onto the 360 in fine form. Its designers have wisely chosen not to mess with success, using the 360's extra power to add detail instead: better weather effects, realistic sweat and more trash talk. But it's not all window dressing. The play calling has been improved, and look for sweet new moves from the players, as well as some extra-crunchy tackles...
...placed him 17 points behind front-runner Andrew Campbell of Georgetown. Porter came in eight points behind his teammate with a score of 89. Johnson and Porter each benefited from strong efforts in the second day of the event, which proved to be the final leg when impending bad weather cancelled any further racing. Both Harvard representatives finished out of the top five only once in the event’s second half, with Porter posting the lowest second-day score of just 17 points. Also invited to compete in the tournament was team co-captain Sloan Devlin. Devlin, however...
...Africa. Just ask Bafing Diarra, 47, who owns slightly less than 25 acres near the village of Korokoro in Mali in West Africa. His headaches are endless: low- yielding seeds from Mali's government-controlled cotton company, boll weevils that this season resisted five applications of pesticides; capricious weather; a lack of equipment, which forces him to pick his cotton by hand in the scorching heat; even monkeys, which occasionally get into the fields and pry open the bolls to get at the sweet water trapped inside...
...Japanese and South Koreans also worry about becoming dependent on imported rice. The concern is especially acute in South Korea, which suffered from widespread hunger as recently as the 1960s. In 1993, Japan was forced to import large quantities of rice when its harvest failed due to unusually cold weather. But many Japanese refused to buy it because of reports of dead rats in sacks of foreign rice and televised taste tests in which participants deemed the strange grains inedible. So shoppers stood in long lines or turned to the black market to buy local rice at outrageous prices instead...