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...most violent conflicts. But he feels he's left danger behind - in Paris. "I was afraid for my children there," says Zerah, who brought his wife and two youngsters to Israel. "My son couldn't walk to the Jewish school with his yarmulke on." Zerah followed his brother Marc who, in 1999, gave up a thriving gynecological practice in Paris's 12th arrondissement to move to Jerusalem with his wife and four children. Marc didn't publicly wear his yarmulke in France. Now he keeps it on all day. "It isn't just a physical immigration. It's spiritual...
Though her parents often squirmed with worry and her husband occasionally shook his head in disbelief, Jenn Ripley has proved with her Atlanta-based store, Luxe, that you can profit from doing what large retailers like Loehmann's do: sell clothing from such designers as Gucci, Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney at a discount...
...past is an imperfect lens through which to peer into the future, but looking backward provides a glimpse, at least, of the sorts of extended dry spells that those who live in this drought-prone region today should be prepared to endure. The West, observed writer Marc Reisner, has a "desert heart," and we ignore it at our peril...
...cinevangelists would say that the churches' appropriation of pop culture is nothing new. "Jesus also used stories," Johnston says. "In his day, parables were the equivalent of movies." Marc Newman, who runs movieministry.com traces pop proselytizing back to the Apostle Paul. "In Acts there's a Scripture describing how he came to the Areopagus, the marketplace in Athens where people exchanged ideas. Paul speaks to the men of Athens and refers to their poets and their prophets. He used the things they knew as a way to reach out with the Gospel...
...became a multibillion-dollar, multinational business. Knock-off luxury products--particularly the bogus designer bags coming out of China, where the majority of them originate--have become a mortal threat. "Ten years ago we said it wasn't a problem, that it was even proof of our success," says Marc-Antoine Jamet, president of France's anti-counterfeiting lobbying group Union des Fabricants, and secretary-general of LVMH, whose Louis Vuitton bags are perhaps the most flagrantly ripped off in the world. "Nobody says that now. We see it as an economic and even a social danger...