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...continue to grow, PacSun executives knew they had to push into additional niches. In 1998 the company, based in Anaheim, Calif., opened a new chain of stores called D.E.M.O. to pull in the hip-hop 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...
...adapting to new conditions. Species with a tolerance for warmer waters may already be emerging. This flicker of hope notwithstanding, scientists agree that the world's reefs need to be protected, mostly with stricter pollution controls and expanded "no-take areas," which keep humans out and let the reefs grow in peace. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...troubled soul who, we discovered in the course of four years that got longer and longer, truly despised politics and the limelight and growled and ranted and threw snits and went and sulked in his tent. He was like the turkeys that are bred for white meat and grow enormous chests and are unable to walk around on their little ankles and have to be kept in hammocks and fed through a tube. He was something of an embarrassment. The Terminator is a charming man with a geezer brain trust of Warren Buffett and George Shultz, and the three...
...professor and artist-in-residence. The Basel show opens with a prologue from those brighter days, including the miraculous gem Ad Marginem, reminiscent of a medieval miniature, with a fiery red sphere aglow on a pale green ground, surrounded by feathery plants and fairy-tale creatures that seem to grow out from all four sides of the frame. Steamboat and Sailboats, Toward Evening and the abstract Polyphony are exercises in Klee's dreamlike version of pointillism, with light and shadow played out in multicolored dots. But 1933 brings an abrupt, definitive change in subject matter and style. The pale, thickly...
...carried foreign passports, and a substantial number of volunteer fighters had crossed into Iraq from Jordan and Syria before the war. It was reported last week that large numbers of Saudi Islamists may have recently crossed the border to join the battle in Iraq - a number that may actually grow as the Saudi authorities press their crackdown against domestic al-Qaeda sympathizers. (Many of the radicals who made their way to Afghanistan 30 years ago, such as Ayman al-Zawahiri and the other Egyptians in Bin Laden's inner circle, were also escaping a crackdown at home...