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...which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully chose to make them generic and timeless. "If you give a figure a [personalized] resemblance," Cormack explains, "it becomes ephemeral, like its model...
...years old this year, but its chances of reaching 101 as an independent company seem to be diminishing. GM is running out of cash and ideas and pursuing merger talks with Chrysler, which is also talking to Nissan. Ford Motor Co. this year celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Model T, an invention that significantly altered almost every aspect of American life from shopping to sex. But Americans are doing demonstrably less of the former when it comes to cars. Sales are braking quickly, and this month are expected to be at their lowest level in 25 years, industry experts...
...Quiksilver. There'll be a sharper difference between the men's and women's ranges. Kingsmill is betting that women aren't so interested in jokes and slogans but will embrace a range that celebrates what he calls the "quintessential Australian beach babe," to be embodied by Sydney model Cheyenne Tozzi. Mambo will stay in department stores but also return to surf chains. If all goes well, says Kingsmill, its nine outlets in Australia could become 20 within three years. He also plans to expand into the U.S., where classic Mambo T shirts have been traded on ebay...
...game, baseball has the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies. That would be 2007's worst team in baseball vs. a franchise that recently lost its 10,000th game. The sound you hear is the country flipping the channel en masse to America's Next Top Model...
Part of that is due to RealtyTrac's deliberate strategy of giving away information to any government entity that wants it. Those sorts of relationships build credibility, and besides, RealtyTrac's business model isn't selling data; it's selling addresses of foreclosures to real estate agents, investors and home buyers. When J.D. Bondurant, a research analyst at the Virginia Housing Development Authority, was given the job of understanding which parts of the state were being hit hardest by foreclosure, he called First American CoreLogic, a highly regarded data aggregator that covers 3,000 counties in-depth and counts lenders...