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Zandl invented the term alpha consumer, and she's the closest thing the trend business has to a founder. She's been doing it since 1986, back when we thought leg warmers were cool. She has streaky blond hair, oblong glasses and a sunny, irresistible smile. She looks like the fun, cool mom you never had. Zandl doesn't give out her exact age (fortysomething is the most she'll cop to), but she is almost certainly the oldest person in America who regularly uses "holla back" at the end of her e-mails...
...course, it isn't just big guns like Gross who have the power to move markets and cause interest rates to spike. Many bond traders are like Brian Edmonds, head of Treasury-bond trading for Banc of America Securities. Blond, trim and a former Harvard lacrosse player, he sits at his desk all day interpreting economic data and trying to predict what the zig-zagging numbers might mean for the market. When claims for unemployment benefits ticked higher last Thursday, it suggested weakness in the economy. Investors promptly bid up bond prices. But Edmonds saw hidden strength in the news...
...Juventus from Italy (4-1). According to promoters, it took only one hour for Man U to sell out its Aug. 3 game against Barcelona at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Likewise for its Giants Stadium appearance against Juventus. All this without the flamboyantly blond David Beckham, auctioned off to Real Madrid earlier this summer for $40 million. How to explain this phenomenon in a country where the resident pro league often struggles for attention? "Man U has a huge draw from [Americans] who have only come to soccer lately," says Jim Trecker of ChampionsWorld, the New Jersey promoter...
...dark room off a dirt lot, a child leafs through the laminated pages of a picture album. There's jade green grass and a white paneled house and a little blond girl smiling. There's a big minivan and a bigger play set. There's a countertop completely covered with food. "This is a very nice place," Emmanuel Williams, 10, says in a quiet voice. "I would like to go to this place." From the point of view of an orphan in Liberia, suburban America looks like paradise. But for Emmanuel, it is a paradise beyond reach...
...Multimedia (orlandomultimedia.net). Younger fans paper their bedroom walls with posters. They kiss their Orli pillowcases ($9.99 on eBay) goodnight. And they flock to online message boards like "Orlando Bloom Is 100% Buff" to read and post news. (And gossip - is he, like, really going out with Kate Bosworth, that blond girl from Blue Crush? He won't say.) According to the search engine Lycos, Bloom has owned the title of most popular male actor online since January 2002, getting more searches than any other - even his Troy costar Brad Pitt. (Bloom still trails Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez...