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...Internet, have a lot of money to spend in a short period of time and are desperate both for information and to communicate with lots of people at once. It was the perfect thing for a tired industry. The bridal world hadn't changed in 20 years. Friends wouldn't touch bridal magazines because they were full of icky poufy sleeves. So we thought we would use the Internet to fundamentally change the business of planning a wedding...
...wanted the Knot to deal with the stuff that traditional media companies wouldn't touch. They would never write about a Jewish girl bringing home a Jamaican boyfriend because they couldn't sell to ad agencies with an article like that. But the American wedding was changing. It was interfaith, intercultural, same-sex, plagued with family problems. Our brand said, Your best friends just planned a wedding, and they'll give you the inside scoop. It was an edgy attitude toward a category that had been staid for so long...
...about cancer, or to tell apocryphal stories about its apparently random nature - of some haggard two-pack-a-day smoker who lived to be 96, versus the exquisite gamine who never smoked, always used sunscreen and did yoga, but went in for a routine checkup and was told she wouldn't see her 25th birthday. But while it used to be difficult to know who would and who would not be its victims, cancer is easier to predict these days. Its causes are actually very well understood, and many types of the disease are preventable - which helps to explain...
...launched a wave of strikes, while some owners sold or simply abandoned their plantations. "Many tea plantations became totally unviable," says Shiv K. Saria of Soongachi Tea Industries, which owns five tea farms in northeastern India. Estates went bankrupt because they were selling at below-cost prices and banks wouldn't lend any more...
Given an opportunity to try to consolidate evangelical support, SaysGrady, "I wouldn't be surprised if [Huckabee] showed up inpictures with a lot of other people in our magazine." But the possible cost is summed up nicely by Frank Lockwood, religion editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, who recently observed Huckabee visit two churches in Irving, Texas: one a non-Prosperity Baptist megachurch and the other a prosperity church. "I think he's been flying under the radar a little bit." he says." A CBS poll of white evangelicals in October showed that 57% said that they didn't know...