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...Cool J to sign an endorsement deal. The trick to hip-hop-fashion money, even more than offering slick styles, is somehow to get a rapper--preferably one on heavy rotation on MTV--to wear your stuff. Dr. Dre is dipped in Karl Kani, Mase gets giggy in Mecca, and Busta Rhymes is decked in Ecko. "Videos are hands down the best advertising you can have," says Mike Clark, the chief operating officer of Wu-Wear, the label started by the rap group Wu-Tang Clan, all of whose members wear it constantly. "It's the best way to cross...
...number of people would make J. Paul Getty smile and architect Richard Meier cringe. Fifteen years in the making, the new Getty Center, a complex of museums, gardens, auditorium and art research institute and its uniquely manicured space dotted with fountains, is a cultural mecca. Roughly hewn stones unify the five museum buildings, while the Central Garden's zigzag path leads to a floating maze of azaleas beneath a waterfall. Designed by noted landscape architect Robert Irwin, the elegance of the Central Garden is matched in the stark beauty of the cacti on the South Promontory, inaccessibly placed so that...
Founded in 1810 and settled by Quakers who left Virginia and the Carolinas because they opposed slavery, Wilmington remains a farming town, not a tourist mecca or fashionably quaint bedroom community. Corn has always been king here--an hour southwest of Columbus, an hour northeast of Cincinnati, 45 minutes southeast of Dayton--but now the overnight-shipping giant Airborne Express shares the crown. In 1980 Airborne turned a decommissioned Air Force base on the outskirts of town into its national hub, and the sleepy town's fortunes were changed. Before Airborne, the unemployment rate was 9.8%; two-thirds of Wilmington...
Reason to Have Second Thoughts: Blissed-out mecca for the self-employed--but job seekers beware...
...that gets West Coasters down, they can always emigrate ? to Dublin, perhaps, which tops the European list; or Santiago, Fortune's Latin American Mecca. But with Rudy Giuliani almost certain to win reelection Tuesday, it looks as if nothing can stain the Big City's smile. Start spreading the news...