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Grove has been agitating about health care since the mid-'90s, when his battle with prostate cancer--which he waged scientifically, as though trying to solve a heat-dispersion problem on a chip--opened his eyes to modern medicine's digital lag. "We are engineers," he says to the room. "We take the problem, decompose it and solve it." And not just any engineers, but engineers at City College--an up-by-your-bootstraps institution famed for offering the disadvantaged a gateway to the middle class. Grove, who slipped out of his native Hungary during the 1956 revolution...
...rappers met in the early '90s and by all accounts became fast friends, performing together in public and hanging out in private. But the relationship swiftly deteriorated after Tupac suspected Biggie of being involved in a robbery attempt that left him shot and hospitalized. They feuded right up until Tupac's death...
...considered a mere pedestrian trim. "It's more of an expressive element than a zipper or a button. In all the various creative disciplines, whether it's fashion or interior design, crystal has a role of amplifying creative expression," he says. "With Liberace or in the late '90s, crystal was sometimes a metaphor for superficiality because of this bling-bling element." Today, however, company executives talk about the "poetry of precision" and how to take founder Daniel Swarovski's original ideas to new levels...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN'S REFRAIN of "Let's get physical," along with the ubiquity of Lycra, started it in the 1980s. Aerobics helped push it into the '90s, and yoga certainly added an aura to the category in the new millennium. Chanel, Prada, Dior and Hugo Boss all capitalized on it a few seasons ago. Activewear has come a long way from the gym and, thanks to relaxed dress codes inaugurated by casual Fridays, it has become a uniform for more and more Americans. But it's not about cotton T shirts and sweats anymore. Today activewear can mean everything...
...Farrah Fawcett sold untold amounts of Wella Balsam conditioner in the '70s and L'Oréal has had a revolving army of actors proclaiming "Because I'm worth it" for four decades, the cachet of the beauty endorsement had been on the wane since the late '80s and early '90s. Models supplanted actors as the "faces" of brands, and celebrities were forced to skulk off to foreign markets like Japan's to fulfill lucrative endorsement contracts under the radar. But a quick glance at a women's magazine in 2006 reveals that there is no more shame in the celebrity...