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...true parental devotion, head to the local mall in Vicksburg, Miss. Just past the JCPenney and the KB Toys, right across from the Corn Dog 7, you'll find a storefront occupied by Redwood Elementary School. A mannequin in the school's red-and-blue uniform presides over a spread of student-made dioramas and papier-mache, painstakingly displayed by Redwood parents in an all-day decorating marathon. On a recent Saturday, the school's choir serenaded shoppers while a troop of parent volunteers was on hand with brochures extolling the virtues of a Redwood education--and urging shoppers...
...then there is Hotwire, and other competitors are sure to follow. Ironically, the very spread of this sort of business model could create Priceline's biggest challenge. With ever faster, always-on gizmos connected to the Web, we will all have access to ever more information. And if we all know the lowest accepted bid for a certain flight or box of cereal, then won't that bid become the de facto price? Priceline's revolution would then have led us right back to where it began: the world of fixed prices...
Cairo was one of many examples of what Steve Lopez writes about in this issue: the attempt to restore Main Streets into quaint shopping and entertainment areas in reaction to the spread of big malls. It's a very localized version of what is sometimes called the Rousing of America--the creation by developers such as James Rouse of entertaining renovated shopping areas like Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston or Harborplace in Baltimore, Md. Now you can find the Rousing impulse in small towns such as Cairo or tiny hamlets such as Kimmswick, Mo., which are exposing every brick...
...been an American icon since the 1870s. And goodness knows there's no harm in innovation. I just hope the new ketchup doesn't pave the way for a landslide of increasingly dramatic reincarnations in the condiment market - or we could all spend the foreseeable future nibbling on sandwiches spread with magenta peanut butter and platinum-hued...
...disease to serve on a government advisory panel. But while Mbeki insists he is merely exercising his right to hear all opinions, critics - including most of the medical community in his own country - charge that this is dangerous dabbling that deflects from the primary objective of stopping the spread...