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...shift," says Gilding. "A happy baby was one that was learning about himself rather than a proposition for the future. Mothers were less interested in a 'mini-me.'" Gilding's film showed mothers enthralled as Baby discovered her toes or a new stuffed animal. The research persuaded Huggies to launch a new campaign, straight out of reality...
Since Hope's launch in 1994, 45 difficult-to-place kids have been adopted; six are expected to be; 19 have returned to a family member; and just seven have returned to state care. Hope's adoption rate from 1994 to '99 was more than three times the average rate of adoption and guardianship for foster kids in the state as a whole. Its initial success has inspired an Excellence in Adoption award from President Clinton, backing from TV-talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell, a book (Hope Meadows, by journalist Wes Smith) and grass-roots support from community leaders...
...asked by his boss at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to go xia hai--literally, "jump into the sea"--abandon research and launch a computer company. Last month that company, Legend Holdings, partnered with AOL Time Warner (parent of TIME) to expand Internet service in China. With Legend granted a 51% stake in the venture, Liu, 56, appears poised to lead the opening of a massive Net market...
...workers in a chaotic Tokyo office dart from desk to desk with armloads of flyers and press kits. A woman digs through a mountainous pile of movie stills; visitors mill under a massive close-up of Affleck. This is the war room, campaign headquarters for Disney's high-stakes launch. Pearl Harbor's budget?one of the biggest in history?is more than double the industry average and means the movie has to earn $400 million worldwide just to break even. But in Japan the company isn't only striving to turn a profit; it also wants to be sure...
...figures as evidence: the company moved 205,000 cars last year, exceeding its goal by 5,000. And while sales are projected to dip to 187,000 cars this year, the company says it expects that number to rebound to 210,000 in 2002 - helped in part by the launch this month of sportier MG versions of its three Rover models. Moreover, dealer sales are up 8% on a year-to-year basis. "We've no reason not to be confident," says CEO Kevin Howe, a former Rover executive who was recruited back to the company by the new owners...