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...could trace the current craze for hippie-chic handbags back to the slouchy style of celebs like Malibu-bound Kate Hudson or in-the-news icons like Sienna Miller. Either way, the must-have accessory for fall is decidedly '70s: beaded, studded or just plain slouchy...
...opened its first store in St. Louis , Mo., eight years ago. Today the chain has more than 180 U.S. stores and 16 overseas franchises; last year it earned $20 million on sales of $302 million. "Teddy bears are universal," says Clark, who got the idea during the Beanie Babies craze...
...that every number appears only once in each row, column and cell. Long popular in Japan, sudoku is based on 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler's Latin Square, and first appeared in U.S. puzzle books in the 1970s under the scintillating title Number Puzzle. The Western craze didn't take off until last fall when an enterprising New Zealander used the Japanese name to pitch his puzzle-generating program to the London Times. Sudoku has since been picked up by nearly 60 newspapers, including the New York Post and several others in the U.S., all willing to inflict sudoku elbow...
...workshop provided us with more comprehensive tips about how to be competitive in the hottest card-collecting craze since Magic: The Gathering. We only have 15 seconds to make an impression, the guest speakers said, so we should just get our names out there and snatch up business cards. The guest speakers then told us to try our hand at networking...
...sooner would a copy-protection scheme come to market than some hacker would find a way to defeat it. At the height of the video-game craze in the early 1980s, youthful pirates raced one another to be the first to make a working copy of each new game disk. In one remarkable coup, a freebooter calling himself Bozo NYC posted instructions on a computer bulletin board for pirating Sirius Software's Phantoms Five two weeks before the game appeared in stores. Even Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak got into the act, writing, for private consumption, a "liberator" program...