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"Yoga has now ascended to the category of �platform agnostic,� the highest praise marketers can conjure for any kind of content, trend, or person. Translation? Consumers drop $3 billion every year on yoga classes, books, videos, CDs, DVDs, mats, clothing, and other necessities."

the wilson quarterly: artificial happiness: the dark side of the new happy class.:

"Dworkin presents a gallery of legal druggies who are so content with their artificial happiness that they have lost all incentive to take action against what made them unhappy in the first place. A man who stays married to a mentally unstable virago, lest a divorce enable her to clean him out financially and gain custody of their son, tells Dworkin, �My wife is still a bitch. I can�t stand her. But now I don�t care so much. I still feel good no matter what happens.� Dworkin believes that society is the victim when millions choose this stupefied state of least resistance, because it eventually destroys conscience and character on a national scale. As others have noted, we need only imagine Abe Lincoln, a clinical depressive, on Prozac: �Well, the Union is finished, we�re two countries now, and slavery is a fact of life, but hey, I feel good about myself.�"

businessweek: is the wal-mart model dead?:

"I think Wal-Mart, like Dell, is seeing the commoditization of price erode its competitive edge and reduce the value it brings to shareholders and consumers. The great supply-chain innovation that drove Wal-Mart's success is being replicated by others. Competing on price doesn't do it in the marketplace for Wal-Mart. It needs to compete on product differentiation--design and innovation--and here Wal-Mart needs lessons from Target."

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