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...last week said he believed Bonds took steroids. "When I played, I worked out with weights, I ate right, and I could never gain 25 lbs. in the off-season. I just couldn't do it." Of course, with steroidophobia in the air, bulking up is suddenly not so chic. Giambi, who claims he lost only 4 lbs. over the winter, looks as if he's shrunk a few shirt, shorts and shoe sizes. "Spring training used to be an annual game of who got bigger," says Josh Suchon, an Oakland Tribune sportswriter who wrote a book on Bonds. "This...
...Mountain Goats emerge onstage, clad in jeans and button-down shirts, worlds away from the NYC rock-chic that is keeping a hold on the current indie audience. Bassist Peter Hughes seems to understand that this is Darnielle’s gig: his bass complements Darnielle’s ferocious guitar strumming without ever overpowering...
...electric motor to deliver 60 m.p.g. on city roads, represents the realization of that objective. Since its debut last year, the car has been the toast of the automotive world. Despite its pedestrian list price of about $20,000, the snub-nosed hatchback is a badge of celebrity chic: Cameron Diaz and Harrison Ford took Priuses to last year's Oscars...
That's just what Lorraine Kirke is doing at her new, shabby-chic-style boutique, Geminola, in the West Village in New York City, where she sells her color-saturated, redyed-satin vintage concoctions along with select fashionista staples like Rogan jeans and C&C California T shirts. In Los Angeles, Koi Suwannagate, 35, sends "pickers" to yard sales to dig up old cashmere sweaters, which she cuts up and then resews into one-of-a-kind creations. "I look at it like an art piece," says Suwannagate, whose prices ($800 to $1,700 for a sweater) reflect intense workmanship...
...each new foreign market. And Bird managers acknowledge that they're just starting to overcome the mainland's reputation for shoddy goods and build an international brand. Still, Xu says, "what Chinese manufacturers can do, foreign companies can't do"--and that's make cell phones that are both chic and unbeatably cheap. The phone wars have only just begun. --By Michael Schuman. With reporting by Bu Hua/Shanghai and Kaiser Kuo/Beijing