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...name my product after the biggest revolutionary in history," says Maurizio Vitale, 38, president of a booming Italian sportswear company called Maglificio Calzificio Torinese. The product, Jesus Jeans, has become a symbol of entrepreneurial audacity since it first appeared in the early 1970s. Its success, moreover, helped to transform Vitale's company from a staid maker of socks and underwear into one of the fastest-growing and most aggressive firms in Italy. Vitale's sales jumped from less than $7 million in 1970 to $65 million last year...
...that the world's largest military power had trouble subduing a flyspeck island. However that impression might be dispelled later, some of the damage will linger. More important, the Administration's case for the invasion rests increasingly on the assertion that the Cubans had been attempting to transform Grenada into a sort of island fortress. Eyewitness reports from correspondents might have made that claim quickly convincing. Their absence may cause the question to persist: What was the Administration trying to hide...
...cream proliferation is only part of the trend that threatens to transform the Square, once and for all, into a Quincy Market outpost. Over the past 20 years, the area has steadily shifted away form local shops and services toward national chains that cater primarily to students and tourists. In 1961, the Square boasted 12 tailors--now there is one. How did you feel the last time you had to get a pair of shoes fixed...
...immediate targets are herpes, hepatitis and influenza, but the potential is much greater. Last week a group of scientists with the New York State department of health announced an exciting and imaginative application of the genetic-engineering techniques that are transforming modern medicine. Using the sophisticated new cut-and-paste methods of manipulating genes, the researchers were able to transform ordinary smallpox vaccine into vaccines that may be able to prevent the other three diseases. So far the results have been tested in animals only, but Virologist Enzo Paoletti, a senior scientist on the project, is confident that they will...
While the left-wing espousal of industrial policy may soon bring credibility to the concept and possibly transform it into federal programs, it is ironic that Reich's program may replace Keynesian deficit spending as the main economic weapon of the Left...