¿Qué es Ozempic y por qué genera tantos comentarios en internet?
Cada vez más personas recurren a este fármaco para la diabetes con el fin de inducir la pérdida de peso. Los expertos dicen que no es un medicamento milagroso.
For Sale in the French Alps: Ski Chalet With a Backyard Mountain Range
A Four-Bedroom Chalet Near Lake Geneva $4.1 MILLION (3.98 MILLION EUROS) This four-bedroom chalet is perched on the brow of a hill in Samoëns, a town in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeast France, bordering Switzerland. Large windows and wide sliding doors offer panoramic views of the mountain-ringed Giffre Valley and the Grand Massif ski station…
Bogotá’s ‘Concept Stores’ Showcase Colombia’s Emerging Brands
This article is part of our special report on global shopping. BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Bogotá’s growing Colombia-only “concept stores” offer shoppers an adventurous twist on the retail experience, and a chance for emerging designers to get their goods noticed. In these variety stores, newer brands get an upscale setting to introduce new clothing, shoes, home…
The ‘Sleeping Beauty’ of Basque Country
This article is part of our special report on global shopping. BAYONNE, France — The Basque Country, a cultural and linguistic territory without formal borders, first evokes the tourist-choked provinces of northwestern Spain. But on the French side of the Pyrenees mountains is the less known and smaller Basque region with the Atlantic resort towns…
Saw It? Loved It? Personal Shoppers Can Get It Anywhere in the World.
This article is part of our special report on global shopping. Sukeena Rao didn’t flinch when she picked up the phone. One of her clients was panicking. She had arrived at a luxury resort in Indonesia for a friend’s 40th birthday party, and realized how poorly she’d packed. Ms. Rao, 45, a two-decade, personal-shopping veteran…
In Warsaw, Mokotowska Street Offers Shoppers a Showcase of Polish Creativity
This article is part of our special report on global shopping. WARSAW — Every day outside of a shop at 61 Mokotowska Street, an intriguing dance of sorts happens: A smattering of men and women of all ages walk out onto the sidewalk and smell the top of their hands or the inside of their…
Can Sensor Technology Help Keep Office Workers Healthy?
Ms. Stanton spent time with building managers, learning about the commercial real estate sector and reviewing data. “I came to realize that we have enough real estate already in big cities,” she said. “We don’t need to build more buildings; we need to use them better.” The company’s technology is also being used to improve…
Selling Stories on Auckland’s Ponsonby and Karangahape Roads
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Auckland’s Indigenous Maori name — Tamaki Makaurau — translates roughly to “Tamaki of a hundred lovers.” But falling for New Zealand’s largest city, which spills over dozens of dormant and extinct volcanoes, can be a process. Auckland is naturally beautiful, fringed with native forest and two coastlines of strikingly different beaches.…
In Hong Kong, Artisans Struggle to Keep Making Traditional Products
This article is part of our special report on global shopping. HONG KONG — In a brightly lit cubicle tucked under the staircase of a tenement building in Hong Kong’s Jordan district, Cheung Shun-king guided a chisel over a pearly white mahjong tile to form a groove of concentric circles. “I have been doing this…
A Trail of Tradition in the Foothills of Northwest Argentina
This article is part of our special report on global shopping. Nestled in the rugged Calchaquí Valleys of northwest Argentina, in the province of Salta, is a generations-old community of weavers producing some of the best examples of the ponchos and other woven goods that are emblematic of the country. In the pocket-size town of…