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...Made Us Do It. What do Yahweh, the Buddha and David Letterman have in common? They love them some lists! There's something magical about distilling wisdom into a single gleaming digit, which may be why so many religions use lists, from the Eightfold Path to the 95 Theses to the show-offy 613 laws of the Torah. An essay on morality would have been more nuanced than 10 commandments but harder to remember. And the tablets would have given Moses a hernia...
Between 1950 and 2005, the world's use of oil grew more than eightfold, bringing global demand to 85 million bbl. of oil per day. Despite that incredible growth, the world's oil appetite is just getting a head of steam, as countries like China and India finally move toward lifestyles comparable to those of Europe and the U.S. Most oil-forecasting models show demand rising to between 120 million and 130 million bbl. per day by 2025 or 2030. The only way this demand can be met is for most of the additional supply to come from the Middle...
...Admittedly, China's new wave of glass artists toil far below the stratospheric heights attained by the country's painters, who have witnessed an estimated eightfold increase in the market for their works during the past two years. But the glass artists are every bit as bold and experimental, and equally capable of referencing international trends while retaining distinctly Chinese characteristics. "Our traditions are different from those in other parts of the world," says Beijing-based artist Guan Donghai, referring to the Chinese preference for casting glass instead of blowing it. "They give our glass a typical Chinese style." This...
...deal quickly with changing taste, he says. "If the customer likes something, we'll give it to them. We can turn around and develop packaging and the bottle and the product in a year." It has been a wildly successful time; South African wine exports have grown almost eightfold since the early 1990s, a stronger performance even than Australia's (albeit from a lower base). Innovative marketing has helped: Charles Back, for example, has enraged French authorities by making a successful Côtes-du-Rhône?style range that he calls Goats Do Roam. And Nick Dymoke-Marr...
...Esprit was a declining casual-clothing business. But Krogner rebuilt Esprit into one of the fastest-growing apparel retailers. Sales in the past fiscal year, which ended in June, probably topped $3 billion, nearly triple its revenues in 2001. In those five years, Esprit's market value has increased eightfold, to more than $10 billion, roughly on a par with Limited Brands and almost twice the size of Abercrombie & Fitch...