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...that its ecology is tremendously unstable. Every six months or so, the cast of imagemakers can change. One season the leading lights may be photographers like Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, rich and famous for their airbrushed Vargas-style pinups. Another season influence falls to teen marketers like the FARM Team, college kids who spread the word about cool products on campuses. There are creative directors who elicit emotion from the familiar combination of a favorite song and the golden autumn glow of a tungsten movie lamp. There are designers like Reed Krakoff, who trusts that his intuition will enable...
...crowd. With their highly polished chrome-and-black decor, d.e.m.o. outlets aren't exactly street. The stores are designed to fit into shopping malls but carry merchandise from P. Diddy's clothing line Sean John and Eminem's line Shady Limited, as well as Phat Farm, Ecko and Enyce--brands that appeal to both blacks and middle-class whites. Company officials had planned to boost d.e.m.o. outlets, now numbering 114 stores, to 200 by 2007. But d.e.m.o. has performed so well, they expect to add double that number...
...predicted the hot weather - blamed on strong rains in sub-Saharan Africa - would continue to the middle of the month at least, and possibly into September. With temperatures regularly nudging - and, in some places, exceeding - 40°C, Europeans faced renewed misery. Train tracks buckled, hundreds of thousands of farm animals died and crops either wilted in the heat or ripened prematurely. Although the fires that ravaged countries from Portugal to Poland were brought largely under control, the cost of the heatwave mounted. The death toll - from both the fires and heat exhaustion - reached at least 36. In Portugal, which...
...grandfather than a drug trafficker. He says he has been in the U.S. poquito--only a short time. A stranger came to his village in the Mexican state of Michoacan and brought him across the border, along with four others. One of them was with him on the Tahoe farm but managed to escape. "I did not know what kind of work it would be," he says in Spanish, adding that he was paid $200 a month. Villa Garcia was arraigned on narcotics-cultivation charges, pleaded not guilty, and is in prison awaiting trial. His is a story federal agents...
...Jeff, TV neophytes who will help produce her cable cooking show; Drew, one of the few writers she hasn't fired; and boyfriend Johnny, a children's songwriter she met over the Internet (he emailed her the lyrics to a song called Down at the Doughnut Farm, he says, and "it sorta took off from there"). During the show they all meet in an office decorated with her old TV Guide covers, and she gives them the assignment: figure out a way, any way, to get her back on TV. "What do I want?" she asks, after shooting down...