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				<title>NOW LISTEN, COMPUTER...</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Last month I flagged up that old futuristic chestnut - voice control of gadgetry - as a top trend for 2012. Voice control has been glacially creeping up on us as a reality for a decade or so, and the trend has speeded up in the past couple of years as computers have got faster. It was pretty useless for a long time. Many will recall the frustration of trying to book cinema tickets using voice-recognition systems. My four-year-old Citroen has one, but it's not very good. Ditto my two-year-old TomTom satnav. But voice recognition has improved immeasurably of late. Many people frequently use programmes such as Dragon Dictate ...]]></description>
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				<title>LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Within an hour  of setting sail around the Galapagos, the boat's public address system announces: 'Dolphins!' And sure enough, a pod of bottlenose dolphins is swimming alongside to the delight of passengers. After a  couple of days this graceful entourage is  as familiar as surfer dudes in Malibu - as are many other extraordinary creatures. During a seven-day vacation here you  can sunbathe next to sea lions, swim with turtles and sharks, get sprayed by a salty marine iguana and stare into the beguiling eyes of a century-old tortoise. No matter how well travelled you may be, this volcanic archipelago off the west coast of ...]]></description>
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				<title>HERE COMES STUBBLE</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Remington's Jon Arvidsson was worried that men's grooming technology had reached its limits. "But you always find some new development to explore," says the shaver firm's European marketing manager. "Besides which, the needs of the consumer are changing all the time too." Right now, Arvidsson has Brad Pitt  and a recession to thank, as job losses,  the feminisation of the workplace and  the decline in traditional manufacturing combine to encourage men to reassert their manhood through stubble. Not  that Brad Pitt is short of work - his lack  of razor action is more down to the consequent fashionability of beardiness. And ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>THE PERFECT RECIPE FOR A WINTER BREAK</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Regular visitors to the Alps will have noticed that winter holidays have become much more than skiing trips in recent years, with resorts hosting culinary, music and comedy festivals and offering everything from guided snowshoe nature tours and paragliding to wine tastings and ice-climbing. While wrenching yourself away from the slopes might prove hard at first, enjoying these other activities is well worth it - giving you a more comprehensive taste of local life and doubtless endearing you to those in your group not as committed to hurtling through the mountain air all day long. As skiing and food go hand in hand, it is appropriate that skiers are ...]]></description>
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				<title>CHAMBER OF HORRORS</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[As director of exhibitions, collections and research at Dresden's Militärhistorisches Museum, Gorch Pieken expected the reopened military treasure trove to "trigger a heated debate" - but some of the controversy that's been stirred up isn't what he had anticipated. He'd expected the design, by Jewish-American architect Daniel Libeskind, to provoke people - and it did, from some Germans who felt an American shouldn't have a hand in it, to others who thought military museums had no business looking fancy and far-out. Libeskind, designer of the master plan for New York's new World Trade Center, is almost as well known in Germany, where his deconstructed Star of David design for ...]]></description>
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				<title>BIG NOISE ON CAMPUS</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Since its low-key arrival on  the academic scene more than 100 years ago, the now ubiquitous MBA has sat between the ivory towers of the university and the coalface of the business world. Instead of relying solely on professors delivering information in lecture and seminar rooms, schools have always looked for ways of directly connecting students with real-life problems. Traditionally this was done  by getting senior managers from the commercial world to visit the campus  and regale them with war stories. This approach, of course, has survived into the present day. But in recent years, as the proliferation of schools across the globe has stirred up ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>REVERSAL OF FORTUNE</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The world has truly turned on its head. While America and Europe struggle to  pay their bills, a handful  of resource-rich African countries are able to save. Fifteen years ago the notion that any more than the odd African government would have a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) was inconceivable. Such funds, which had the firepower to bail out Wall Street, are hardly synonymous with Africa, a continent better known for aid and poverty than any financial largesse. Yet in a stark reflection of how wealth has migrated from developed economies south as well as east, oil producers Nigeria and Ghana are laying the foundations for sovereign funds; ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>WELCOME TO THE REPUTATION ECONOMY</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[You don't need to be BP, Toyota, News Corp or even Tiger Woods to know how quickly 'brand equity' can be destroyed by screw-ups, cover-ups and indiscretions. In the face of such PR fiascos, the accepted repair strategy has been to come clean as quickly and as contritely as possible. But in an era when corporate skeletons are subject to constant social media scrutiny, your business can suffer just as easily by being too transparent. Ask Bank of America. Faced with new US regulations that limited the fees that banks can levy merchants every time a consumer makes a debit card purchase, the nation's second-largest bank could have done ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>STRATOSPHERIC PROFITS</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[From farmers to fashion houses, from advertisers to airlines, weather affects the bottom line of numerous industries worldwide. Indeed, more than a third of  US economic growth is linked to weather conditions, according to figures from the Depart ment of Commerce. A colder-than-expected winter, say, will directly impact how much fuel will be burnt to heat homes, how fast crops will grow and how much consumers will spend on goods. Yet until recently few companies could or would take action to mitigate the risk of either extreme or rapidly changing weather on their business. This is changing though, thanks to a combination of advances in forecasting technology, a ...]]></description>
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				<title>WHEN GOOD DEEDS PAY DIVIDENDS</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[One day in 2007, companies all over the world were suddenly on the phone to Harriet Lamb. "They had heard a rumour," remembers the Fairtrade Foundation's executive director. "But they didn't believe it could be true." It was. One of Britain's largest supermarkets, Sainsbury, had made a huge decision: to  sell bananas only if they carried the Fairtrade label. "It  was a huge financial commitment," says Lamb. Moving exclusively to Fairtrade bananas would  cost Sainsbury as much as £4m a year - and its  chief executive, Justin King, knew that it couldn't  pass on the cost to consumers, because British supermarkets compete furiously on ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>HEART OF A NATION</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Some three hours' drive  from the Indian capital Delhi is the sprawling 30-acre campus of VidyaGyan school. Thirty classrooms, shiny computer and language labs, dormitories and modern sports facilities are all housed in pristine architect-designed brick buildings that dot velvet lawns and play areas. It's an unusual sight in Uttar Pradesh, which, with its grinding poverty and population of  200 million, is one of India's poorest states. Most schools here are crumbling buildings with few facilities, or out in the open under a tree  in a village. But then VidyaGyan is an unusual school. Its 800 students are all from poor rural families and although it ...]]></description>
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				<title>TERRA VISION</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Late one warm Brazilian  night in November, 20,000 over-excited teenagers, hip twentysomethings and adults alike danced simultaneously at two stages, to rockers  the Strokes and UK dance pioneers Groove Armada. With 15 acts, Planeta Terra was the kind of super-festival that the eager Brazilian consumer has been used to seeing staged recently. But Fernando Madeira, the 41-year-old who blended in seamlessly that night with the other fans, says his company didn't put the event on to make money from it. "Of course, it turned out to be profitable," he says. "But we aren't in the business of selling tickets and putting on events. We wanted to offer ...]]></description>
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				<title>CHINA'S GREEN CONVERSION</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Given its reputation as the biggest ecological vandal on the planet,  it might come as a shock to learn that China is finally taking green issues seriously. However much sceptics might quibble, the most recent statistics published show that at the end of 2010, it was the world's largest investor in clean energy, with a $54.4bn stake. It's also the foremost exponent of wind power, notching up a staggering 44.7GW of installed capacity and overtaking the US in the process. In addition, Chinese factories manufacture more photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines than any other nation. And by 2020, the installed capacity of wind, solar and biomass technology ...]]></description>
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				<title>BOLLYWOOD'S NEW  BLUEPRINT</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Had you been in India  in the weeks leading  up to the opening of Ra.One, a London-set science-fiction epic billed as Bollywood's most expensive film yet, you could hardly have escaped its lead character. Played by Hindi cinema's golden boy Shah Rukh Khan (known as SRK), he was everywhere: on TV, in newspapers, on billboards, online, emblazoned on India's Formula 1 cars - even under your arm, thanks to Ra.One deodorant. This was the $26m (€20m) production that would show that kid-friendly special-effects films need no longer be Hollywood's moneymaking licence, a 3D superhero film that would save big-screen entertainment from its small-screen foes. "Local cinema is ...]]></description>
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				<title>TOO MUCH INFORMATION</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Stand on a platform at Berlin's Hauptbahnhof, London's Waterloo or New York's Penn Station and there will be hundreds  of business people touting the latest smartphones and checking their emails. In every airport business lounge almost everyone seems to be putting the finishing touches to a presentation on an iPad (or other tablet device), or watching a movie or TV show. Field service engineers and breakdown mechanics come equipped with data-connected laptops, so they can download the latest technical documents in moments, or check the availability of spare parts. This is the vision of the always-connected world - and one that is promoted heavily by mobile phone companies. ...]]></description>
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				<title>THE FABLE GUYS</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Think about what it  takes to make an emerging beauty brand shine in a marketplace crowded with big-name multinationals and what spring to mind are big product promises, celebrity endorsements, eye-catching packaging and a hefty ad budget. Aesop has none of these. Not only that, it doesn't do make-up, sells music and a dog shampoo alongside its top-end moisturisers, and recommends red wine and a good book to round out your beauty regimen. Oh, and it's run by an electrical engineer. This is a beauty company that really shouldn't work. Yet around the world there are clusters of Aesop devotees paying €25 for deodorant and similarly lofty prices ...]]></description>
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				<title>PLAYING THE LONG GAME</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[In September the CEO and founder of Paris-based Viadeo - the world's second most popular professional networking site (after LinkedIn) - left Silicon Valley, where he'd just moved to, and settled in Beijing. It was time, Dan Saferty decided, to reap the rewards of an investment he'd made in 2008 when he'd bought Tianji, the Chinese market leader. "I asked him to move here" recalls his friend Derek Ling, Tianji's CEO. "I could see signs that the market was ready and it was really important for Dan to be here and feel it." Since 2009, China had become Viadeo's number-one market, overtaking France. Considering the number of internet users ...]]></description>
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				<title>THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[In 1972, not long after becoming the first actor to be anointed a British lord, Laurence Olivier made his one and only televised product endorsement. The commercial was for the Polaroid SX-70, the camera now seen as  a landmark in photographic engineering and design. Despite a hefty list price that would be the equivalent of $835 today, the press and the public couldn't get enough of this miraculous SLR that folded flat and produced instant photos. By the following year, Polaroid was churning out 5,000 of these iconic gadgets every day. Forty years on and Polaroid's precarious hope for survival now rests on the glam-kitsch shoulders of its ...]]></description>
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				<title>STOCK SWAP</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[For month after month, governments have battled to revive the ailing global economy by printing money. But quantitative easing doesn't seem to have worked - so increasing numbers of businesses are taking matters into their own hands, and printing money themselves. They're not printing legal currency, of course - that's illegal. But anybody can issue an IOU, and an IOU does not need to be redeemed at once but can be passed around from one person to the next. Is it possible that 'complementary currencies' of this sort, created by businesses willing to accept each other's notes, could help to resolve the credit crisis? One person who thinks so ...]]></description>
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				<title>DOUBLE JEOPARDY</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[South America has had a good 21st century so far. This has become even more clear since the crisis of 2008 engulfed the world's richest nations, while most of the countries on the continent powered forward. In this light the words  of Deng Xiaoping, who introduced China's economic reforms, seem prophetic: "It is often said that the 21st century will be the century of the Pacific. But I believe it could also be the century of Latin America." It is no coincidence that South America's fate in the past 11 years has been tied to the rise of China itself. For a long time closely connected with the ...]]></description>
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