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...household name with the help of a massive television advertising campaign featuring China's debonair movie heartthrob, Pu Quanxin. Zhang has also proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs a bar code in each PDA so when his reps visit retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast...
Chefs say one key reason to poach is the healthfulness of Japanese cuisine. Homing in on Americans' increasing attention to their bodies, restaurateur Nieporent tapped Michel Nischan to create a menu for his swanky Heartbeat restaurant in the W Hotel using no butter, cream or foie gras. "I was nervous," Nischan says. "Without those ingredients, people presume food won't taste good...
...areas of shared belief. Ecumenism celebrates religious belief in the abstract. And that is the puzzle. Why is erroneous belief preferred over nonbelief? Spiritual brotherhood can start to look more like a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The religion cartel. We band together and solemnly agree not to poach one another's customers...
...several years now educators have been puzzling over a nettlesome new math problem: with high-stakes exams requiring students to learn more, how should teachers go about cramming in the extra classwork? Popular answers have been to poach time from pursuits like art, PE and music or to excise field trips. According to a University of Virginia study published last year, some schools in that state even took to curtailing student bathroom trips to squeeze in extra study time...
...Last March a labor-hungry Internet portal based in New Delhi gave Dubey a job editing online stories about women's fashion. He was hardly an expert, but, hey, it was his first work in 18 months. Within a couple of weeks, two other Internet-related companies tried to poach him. Today he makes $475 a month, three times the salary of a doctor right out of medical school, and his parents are getting marriage offers from families with available daughters. Dubey is the content manager for a portal providing crop and weather information for Indian farmers. Jobs like...