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...music collectors, who began snapping up rockers' guitars, autographed albums, books and other items in the '60s, '70s and '80s are seeing the biggest gains as many were able to buy items at bargain-basement prices before the internet and sites such as eBay moved memorabilia collection into the mainstream. Baby boomers are driving the growth...
...expanding girth is just one consequence of mainstream farming. Another is chemicals. No one doubts the power of chemical fertilizer to pull more crop from a field. American farmers now produce an astounding 153 bu. of corn per acre, up from 118 as recently as 1990. But the quantity of that fertilizer is flat-out scary: more than 10 million tons for corn alone - and nearly 23 million for all crops. When runoff from the fields of the Midwest reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it contributes to what's known as a dead zone, a seasonal, approximately...
...party hasn't been able to get into Germany's federal parliament - the Bundestag - it has been more successful at the grass-roots level. The NPD is well organized and active in local communities, launching popular campaigns and reaching out to young, unemployed people who are disillusioned with mainstream politicians. Thuringia has emerged as a key election battleground for the NPD ahead of the state vote at the end of August, with the party determined to enter the regional parliament. If it does, Thuringia would be the third state where the NPD is represented, along with the east German states...
When it starts inspiring the motifs that adorn designer handbags, graffiti's entrée into the world of mainstream culture is no longer in doubt. It is in this spirit that the expansive exhibition "Born in the Streets - Graffiti," which runs until Nov. 29 at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, is being held. At the same time, curator Thomas Delamarre says that he isn't about to "hang some canvases on the wall and say, 'That's graffiti.' Graffiti exists because it was born in the street...
...great con," says Geoffrey Alderman, an expert on Anglo-Jewry at the University of Buckingham. Alderman points out that the board is bound by its constitution to defer to its most senior ecclesiastical authority, Sir Jonathan Sacks, on matters of religion - and Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the U.K.'s mainstream synagogues, is head of the United Synagogue, which has already spent $225,000 helping JFS defend its case. (Read "Avigdor Lieberman: Politically Incorrect...