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Kennedy is one of the estimated 2.3 million teens who pop into a tanning parlor at least once a year, helping make indoor tanning what an industry trade group says is a $5 billion-a-year business. While many go only in the spring to get ready for the prom, more and more are seeking year-round "bronzitude," according to dermatologists, who are alarmed by the risks of so much exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. A survey of nearly 1,300 teenagers in Boston and Minneapolis--St. Paul, Minn., conducted in 2000 by researchers at Harvard and the University...
...adolescent culture that currently encourages compulsive tanning. In some circles--Kennedy's cheerleading squad, for instance--a year-round tan is becoming part of the uniform. "All the girls who are really tanned all through the year--they're the popular girls," Hendershot says. Images of perpetually bronzed pop icons such as Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson reinforce a tan's value. So do members of the opposite sex. "Guys are always complimenting girls on their tans," Hendershot notes. And some are joining the tanning-bed trend themselves, she confides. "Their girlfriends make them go," she says, although "no guys...
...place we’re going into.” McKelvey said that American Apparel also tries to create an environment that will encourage people to stop in on a whim. “We really think about the store as a kind of neighborhood store that you pop into when you’re looking for a basic T-shirt or underwear,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be a place you need to go to shop.” Because the American Apparel on Newbury Street is located...
...restaurants," applebees.com says, "it is the largest casual dining restaurant concept in the world" (Ruby Tuesday, by comparison, has just 880 locations). Note the language: Applebee's is much more concept than restaurant. It serves food grounded in no particular ethnic or regional cuisine in settings bewilderingly overstuffed with pop-culture images and gimcrack Americana. The following items are affixed to the walls of the Jamestown Applebee...
...Instead, like most business travelers, I was confined to restaurant food, and in towns the size of Jamestown (pop. 15,500), that means "casual dining" establishments. Before the era of chain dining - of Applebee's and Outback and that graybeard T.G.I. Friday?s (founded 1965) - business-traveler dining was different. I like to imagine that a gentleman in a Cary Grant suit stepped from his plane (itself stewarded by a pillbox-hatted attendant who had served gin martinis) and drove to a local place to eat crunchy fried chicken and flaky blueberry pie. I like to imagine the gentleman then...