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...designer's inner circle say Lacroix is bitter about the way LVMH'S chairman, Bernard Arnault, handled the sale, although Arnault shows little regret. "For 17 years we have worked to transform the company, and we have not been successful," he says. "It's time to focus on our core businesses and those brands like [Louis] Vuitton that have the most potential...
Adult sexual networks look very different and usually involve clusters of wanton individuals known to public-health experts as "core transmitters." (Think prostitutes, NBA stars.) Another surprise was the absence of tightly closed loops in which a foursome trades partners--what co-author Peter Bearman calls the Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice phenomenon, after the 1969 film. Teenagers seem to shy from such post-breakup swaps. Bearman, who heads the sociology department at Columbia University, suggests that dating the former boyfriend of your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend may involve a loss of status or cross a line of loyalty...
...change his or her behavior--through abstinence, using a condom, or getting treated for an STD--then you could prevent transmission from B to C and down the network," says Kathleen Ethier, of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention. It's much harder to intervene in the adult core-transmitter model. So, scary as that map may look to parents, Ethier says, understanding how it works "is very encouraging...
...Musab Zarqawi, who recently became al-Qaeda's man in Iraq). That's because they're waging a campaign of terror to intimidate would-be candidates, electoral workers and voters from showing up at the polls. The insurgency is believed to number some 20,000 to 40,000 hard-core fighters, although Iraq's interim intelligence chief says it is able to call on a wider pool of up to 200,000 Iraqis for active support. For Islamists such as Zarqawi, the campaign is a rejection of democracy per se, and a reiteration of his demand for clerical rule...
...General Motors opened a research lab, its first outside the U.S. Others without wholly owned R.-and-D. labs are parceling out discrete pieces of research to Indian firms such as Wipro Technologies, which increased its R.-and-D. business 55% last year. "[Clients] are not doing their core-competency product engineering with us, but there's a lot of work around it," says Wipro Technologies' CEO, Vivek Paul. For example, Wipro might handle the documentation and testing of new software or create the foreign-language versions...