Word: falling
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...more solid-black worms, the more snow; the more solid-brown worms, the less snow. But if more worms are black on the ends and brown in the middle, that means winter will "start and end hard," Lane says, while brown ends and a black middle mean a mild fall and early spring but a harsh midwinter. Each fog forming in August foretells a measurable snowfall. Thick corn shucks also mean a cold winter. The last three days of January portend weather for the next three months, and thunder in February means there will be a frost 90 days later...
...from such all-purpose discount stores as Wal-Mart and Target. Its bloated inventory system costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year. It must somehow cut costs while remodeling stores and bolstering employee training and service. And Toys "R" Us managers can only pray, as they do each fall but even more so this year, that among the new toys they have bought by the trainload are a few hits--the Tickle Me Elmos and Power Rangers--that will fill parking lots with minivans...
Some relief could come with strong sales this fall. Generally, the fourth quarter, which includes Halloween and Christmas, accounts for half of all toy sales. But like the recording and movie industries, the toy trade is driven by hits. So far this year, "there isn't a superhit toy out there," says Eugene Gilligan, executive editor of the toy-industry trade publication Playthings. "The biggest hit for the past year has been Beanie Babies, and Toys 'R' Us doesn't even carry them." But retailers have high hopes for several potential breakout toys, from a microchip-loaded version of venerable...
...wanted to play roulette, you walked into a casino. If you wanted pornography, you bought it in public. The Web lets you indulge these hobbies secretly, even to addictive lengths. But then it throws in fear of retribution from on high--the chance that your data will fall into the wrong hands. (If that makes you queasy, buy your pornography at a convenience store, as our forefathers...
...which drove home the message that fur was a distasteful and excessive luxury. But as with most things in fashion, the trend faded. In 1985, 45 designers were using fur. This year that figure is closer to 200. Giorgio Armani, Badgley Mischka and Carolina Herrera showed fur in their fall '98 collections either for the first time or after a long break, and fashion's current chief recipient of slavish admiration, John Galliano, did a whole fur line. (Oddly though, he outfitted his models to look like prostitutes.) In the early '90s when fashion magazines did fur shoots, the stylists...