Published: Feb 23, 2012
KYOTO — From the exterior, no one would expect that the nondescript industrial building, owned by the Japanese lingerie giant Wacoal, contains one of the world’s most prestigious clothing collections. Or that the building, a stark contrast to the city’s Buddhist temples, gorgeous gardens and mild-mannered monks, serves as
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Danny Miles is a coach. For four decades, he has coached here, mostly basketball, through the collapse of the logging industry and the Klamath Basin water crisis, for more wins than all but three coaches at any level in the history of college basketball. He turned down other jobs, at bigger schools, in larger towns. He
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
STAMFORD, Conn. — The old Town Hall here, a Beaux-Arts building on the National Registry of Historic Places, has sat unused for 25 years, a victim of Stamford’s rapid growth in the 20th century. But the Town Hall will join the 21st-century economy, with the announcement this month that it would become an incubator for business start-ups
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Political campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are now fully engaged on the latest technological frontier in advertising: aiming specific ads at potential supporters based on where they live, the Web sites they visit and their voting records. In recent primaries, two kinds of Republican voters have been seeing two
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Drones — more formally armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs — are “in.” Since a Predator strike in Yemen against Al Qaeda in November 2002 — the first known use of a drone attack outside a theater of war — the United States has made extensive use of drones. There were nearly four times as many drone strikes in
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
PARIS — Van Cleef & Arpels is known in the watch world for its whimsical and bejeweled timepieces like those in its “Poetic Complications” collection, but the Parisian company has also returned to a simpler era by rereleasing the slim, elegant Pierre Arpels watch. The company took advantage of the Salon International de la Haute
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
PRINCETON, N.J. — As a serial snack-food entrepreneur, Warren Wilson is no stranger to the challenges of running a business. In the early days of his first enterprise, selling funnel cakes at fairs, there was the time when, tired of losing money on inclement days, he bought weather insurance — and proceeded to lose even more money than
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
The most obvious sign that there is a lot of junk in space is how much of it has been falling out of the sky lately: a defunct NASA satellite last year, a failed Russian space probe this year. While the odds are tiny that anyone on Earth will be hit, the chances that all this orbiting litter will interfere with working satellites or the
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
SUPPOSE you don’t need your car today. And suppose, as it happens, that a stranger in your area does need a car. Would you be willing to rent yours out? Several car-sharing start-ups, including Getaround , RelayRides and JustShareIt , are eager to connect car owners with renters this way. The companies use different formulas, but
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
“More and more, media outlets may be seen as a federation of voices, but there has to be a there there, a single unifying principle or value.” — David Carr, New York Times columnist, Feb. 13, 2012 DAVID CARR put his finger on something in his column last Monday , which dealt with the tension between individual journalists’
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