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According to Li Edelkoort, a trend watcher based in Paris who produces the sumptuous periodical Bloom ("the only trend magazine for flowers and plants"), there is currently a vogue for combining flowers of dissonant colors and textures. "Florists are crossing borders, mixing food and flowers, savage and romantic, dead wood and spring flowers, and eventually I think hardware and natural things," she says...
...because it would reveal that he was ailing, wounded or disguised. They say they detected labored breathing in the tape--it is rumored that bin Laden suffers from kidney disease--and think he was reading from a script. But he may simply have used audio to make sure no watcher could glean information useful in tracking him down. Skilled at propaganda, bin Laden could have reasons for speaking now other than to signal an attack. "Terror groups don't like to be upstaged," says Brian Jenkins, a counterterrorism expert at the Rand Corp. "Bin Laden is reminding us that with...
...exchange. Trading in its shares was halted Sept. 30 at the request of the company and it later came to light that Yang had raised money by selling nearly 82 million shares last month for a few cents each, dropping his stake to 49%. Lee Jong-suk, a China watcher at Sejong Institute, a Seoul think tank, says Beijing may have been forced to act quickly before Yang's untidy affairs made him an international diplomatic problem. So what happens now? Wang Huizhong, a colleague of Yang's in the Sinuiju project office, insists everything "is still proceeding as planned...
...Unlike Jager, who alienated his top managers so much that they stopped keeping him in the loop, Lafley "wants to hear any bad news--and as a result, he hears far less of it," says Gary Stibel, CEO of the New England Consulting Group and a longtime P&G watcher...