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...while many are working to establish a presence beyond their home market, only an elite handful have attained a truly global presence. So says a recent report by market research company ACNielson. The researchers studied hundreds of billion-dollar brands in more than 50 categories including soft drinks, hair care and diapers (a noteworthy omission is cars, which ACNielson does not track), and concluded that only 43 are world renowned. Among them are Fanta soda (Coca-Cola Co.) and Whiskas cat food (Mars), which are popular in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
...their veils." Saudi women typically don a billowy black cloak called an abaya, along with a black scarf and veil over the face; morality police enforce the dress code by striking errant women with sticks. The women of Iran and Sudan can expose the face but must cover the hair and the neck...
...teacher-training college, she opened a secret beauty salon in her house in Kabul. A high wall shields her customers from prying eyes. Inside are pictures of female models torn from Pakistani magazines. On shelves beside a large mirror, she has a selection of lipsticks, eyeliners and hair sprays. In the West they would be commonplace. In a society that forbids them, they seem weirdly precious...
...don’t want to get a bad reputation like me, wear fuzzy pink angora sweaters and dye your hair blonde,” she said. “It does wonders...
Ornate green and black dust jackets of early 20th century fantasy fill Keaveny’s bookshelf, which stands diagonally across the small room. According to Keaveny, a young man with unruly curly hair, Converse sneakers and large horn-rimmed glasses, lovers of rare and first-edition books tend to have highly specialized interests...