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...have figured out how to cater to the fashion desires of that fickle yet reliably profligate demographic group, American teenagers. By stocking only the hottest surf-and skate-clothing brands--and by being willing to dump them the moment they start to cool--the once laid-back West Coast retailer has expanded into a 650-store monster with outlets in 49 states and Puerto Rico (a store in the 50th state, Arkansas, should open soon). And it has done this without losing cachet with its target market. Pacific Sun, says shopper Heather Brentlinger, 17, of Omaha, Neb., "has the surfer...
...first records are broken in the southwest, where temperatures reach 41C in the Bordeaux region and on the Atlantic coast. AUG. 10 Patrick Pelloux, head of France's emergency physicians' association, announces that some 50 people have died of heat-related illnesses in the Paris region in the past four days. He criticizes the General Directorate for Health for characterizing the deaths as natural. AUG. 12 Pelloux says some 100 people across France have died from the heat. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, vacationing in Combloux, a village in Haute-Savoie, dismisses criticism of his handling of the crisis...
NASA and the University of Arkansas have been using satellite mapping and ground-based temperature readings to determine how widespread this phenomenon is. This spring researchers got a surprise when they turned their attention to Houston. Because it's near a coast and sea breezes tend to cool and disperse hot air, Houston was thought to be comparatively safe from homemade rain. Now it appears that the opposite may be true. "The sea breeze may exacerbate the rainfall," says research meteorologist Marshall Shepherd of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The warm air and sea air collide, he explains...
...decade ago, Doug Ducey was selling Folgers coffee to restaurants when his West Coast customers began asking for the kinds of pricier gourmet blends served at Starbucks. He dismissed it as a fad. After all, what could possibly change America's coffee-drinking habits...
...Even before he left, there was a change of mood in Monrovia. Nigerian peacekeepers had taken over checkpoints. Instead of gun-wielding teenagers begging for money, there were uniformed soldiers and white armored personal carriers. Less than an hour after the transfer of power, American warships sailed by the coast, and Liberians gathered on the beaches to stare. "I think they can see us from here," said Harry John, 24. "When Taylor leaves they will come." Two helicopters flew closer and the streets filled with cheers...