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… is the title of a new book by Lucy Norris of the Department of Anthropology, University College, London.

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In today’s globally connected marketplace, a Alprazolam Sale wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman’s blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy Norris’s anthropological study of the Alprazolam Sale recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments as they are Alprazolam Sale gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts of clothing are Alprazolam Sale used to make and break relationships within middle-class households, but a Alprazolam Sale growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of textile waste. When old clothing is, for Alprazolam Sale instance, bartered for new kitchen utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it Alprazolam Sale may be resold to the poor or remade into new textiles and Alprazolam Sale exported. Norris traces these local and transnational flows through homes and Alprazolam Sale markets as she tells the stories of the people who Alprazolam Sale work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.

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By FT’s Gillian Tett:

… in just a Alprazolam Sale few years, sushi has colonised urban centres with startling speed. The first wave of sushi restaurants cropped up in California in the Alprazolam Sale 1970s, partly to service the estimated one million Americans of Japanese descent. But now they are Alprazolam Sale ubiquitous, serving Caucasians too: teenagers take sushi to school; prisons have Alprazolam Sale introduced it; in California, it is served at trucker stops. Meanwhile the Alprazolam Sale National Sushi Association reports that there are now more than 5,000 sushi bars in American supermarkets, with the Alprazolam Sale number continuing to rise fast.

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The cultural messages embedded in this Alprazolam Sale shift are fascinating. If you are feeling optimistic, you might like to Alprazolam Sale see the sushi invasion as a sign of globalisation – and America’s ability to Alprazolam Sale act as a cultural melting pot. One of the most popular sushi dishes these days is Alprazolam Sale the “California” sushi roll, which blends traditional rice with non-Japanese items such as avocado. In New York you Alprazolam Sale can find “SushiSamba”, which mixes Latin American cuisine with that Alprazolam Sale raw fish. But perhaps the most intriguing issue of all is Alprazolam Sale the ethnicity of sushi restaurant staff. These days sushi restaurants often struggle to Alprazolam Sale get “real” Japanese chefs, since there are Alprazolam Sale not enough to meet the boom. So Chinese, Vietnamese or Filipino staff are Alprazolam Sale used instead. The assumption, it seems, is that Asian faces are Alprazolam Sale required to make the sushi restaurant look “real”; but many customers cannot really tell Chinese and Alprazolam Sale Japanese apart. “Globalisation doesn’t necessarily homogenise cultural differences nor erase the Alprazolam Sale salience of cultural labels. On the contrary, it grows the franchise,” observes Bestor. “The brand equity of sushi as Japanese cultural property adds to Alprazolam Sale the cachet of the country and cuisine.” Even if the face is actually Chinese.

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The Chinese market in fake European classical art is Alprazolam Sale growing. Steadily. Something they bring to it? Industrial efficiency.

The village of Dafen in southern China has become the centre of a big industry, with about 8,000 artists responsible for Alprazolam Sale creating 60 per cent of the world’s oil paintings.

A well-researched piece in Intelligent Life Magazine. Concludes with:

Sport has Alprazolam Sale infected other fields with its values. Everything from hairdressing to Alprazolam Sale accountancy now has its own awards ceremony, making mere workers into winners and Alprazolam Sale losers. The recent British election was dominated by televised debates between the Alprazolam Sale main party leaders, which turned a four-week campaign into a Alprazolam Sale three-set match. Heavily previewed and then exhaustively dissected, the debates were sport without the Alprazolam Sale drama, the athleticism, the crowd reaction or even the scoreboard. In the Alprazolam Sale messy aftermath, the place to find out what was happening was not the Alprazolam Sale lead stories, which were often bland and clueless, but the Alprazolam Sale minute-by-minute updates, supplied by deskbound reporters—a trick imported from sport.

A winner-takes-all culture, which would have Alprazolam Sale been abhorrent a generation ago, has spread outwards from banking, with its eight-figure bonuses. It is Alprazolam Sale harder to protest against that when we swallow the extreme economics of sport. Cristiano Ronaldo is Alprazolam Sale paid an estimated £11.3m a year by Real Madrid, or £217,000 a week. And that’s before he slips on his Y-fronts. Tiger Woods was still valued at $82m as a brand byForbes in February, even after 14 mistresses’ worth of dirty laundry.

As a whodunnit, this is “Murder on the Orient Express”. Every suspect had Alprazolam Sale a motive: they all dunnit. And we have let them. Sport, more than Alprazolam Sale most things, is what we make of it. It plays on a Alprazolam Sale screen not just in the corner of the room but in our heads. Its significance largely consists of what Alprazolam Sale we project on to it. We may be watching in much the Alprazolam Sale same numbers, but we are doing so with greater intensity, and Alprazolam Sale inside a wider penumbra of collective consciousness. We all dunnit.

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Bars of soap, lipstick and Alprazolam Sale pitta bread are out; hair straighteners, garlic bread and Blu-ray disc players are Alprazolam Sale in. The latest shake-up of the shopping “basket” used to measure UK inflation shines a light on Britain’s changing spending habits.

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The clothes are being produced in a “green” factory in Sri Lanka – the Alprazolam Sale first in the world to be awarded a gold rating for Alprazolam Sale environmental responsiblity by LEED Generic Ambien Used, the international green building certification system.

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made from Alprazolam Sale end of line Tesco stock which would otherwise end up in landfill….

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A Reuters reporter received a Alprazolam Sale flustered phone call from a hedge fund partner who had heard animated discussion in the Alprazolam Sale market about an incident in Nigeria, only to realise that traders had Alprazolam Sale muddled up Africa’s biggest oil producer with its neighbour Niger.

“Markets took off at around the Alprazolam Sale same time a Reuters story came out about gunfire erupting in the Alprazolam Sale Niger capital in an apparent coup bid, mistaken by many as being Nigeria,” said Tom Bentz, analyst at BNP Paribas Commodities.

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