Toyota forced to reassess its approach with Scion - Detroit Free Press
Toyota forced to reassess its approach with Scion - Detroit Free Press
After five years generating big headlines and relatively small sales, Toyota’s youth-oriented Scion brand is at a crossroads. Toyota executives are rethinking some of the basic principles they set out for the brand — how many and what kind of
Brand bullying growing, warn teachers - Guardian Unlimited
Children who cannot afford the latest brands and fashions face bullying or exclusion by their peers, teachers warned yesterday. A desire to fit in plays a huge role in the products children want to own, a poll by the Association of Teachers and
City Chase attracts hundreds of Amazing Race-like racers - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattleites don’t normally come to Pike Place Market to eat a cup of raw salted herring. “That was disgusting,” Zack Kirsch said as he finished choking down the last morsel of fish at The Fish Market. “It was so salty. I was just shocked.” Raw fish
Why the Games won’t pay off for Canadian athletes - Globe and Mail
Unlike the stars of winter, few of Canada’s summer Olympians have managed to parlay their successes into lucrative corporate sponsorship or endorsement gigs. Even gold medalists typically fade from public view by the time the next hockey season gets
Neb. beef industry gets help marketing to Japan - Beatrice Daily Sun
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Nebraska’s beef industry has teamed with a U.S. trade association to get help marketing its Japan-bound exports. Japan had been the United States’ top destination for beef before concerns of mad cow disease led to a ban in 2003
Unofficial results: Morales keeps job in Bolivia - Miami Herald
A coca farmer throws confetti over Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, left, as he arrives to vote in Villa 14 de Septiembre, in the Bolivian state of Cochabamba, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Bolivians will decide Sunday whether Morales should stay in office
