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...Boris G. Sumilovitch ‘03 dressed as a nerd for Halloween—pants high, shirt tucked in, sporting thick black glasses. 100% of the people that he met made some variant of a “Dude, you didn’t need to dress up to be a nerd!” joke. Sumilovitch noted that he should have anticipated that shit...
...juice. For moments like that, keep handy the new Instant Power Charger ($10, plus $20 for a connecting cable) from Electric Fuel. It generates power chemically, no wall socket required, and it packs enough punch to recharge your phone three times over. Best of all, it fits into your shirt pocket. For more info, charge over to www.electric-fuel.com...
Conventional wisdom says it's financial suicide to open a garment factory in the U.S. Why set up here when your competition has long since fled to sweatshops offshore? Judging by the success of the American Apparel company--which opened a massive T-shirt factory in Los Angeles three years ago--"Made in the U.S.A." still makes good business sense. Says owner Dov Charney, 32: "My competitors located production centers thousands of miles from their design rooms and marketplace. It's like making prefab homes in India and trying to sell them here...
...reasons American Apparel may survive is that it's a niche, value-added player. Its shirts are made with fine-knitted cotton with a higher yarn count than the typical T, making for a softer feel. Even if the company boosts sales fivefold, to $100 million, it will still be a minnow in the $10 billion U.S. imprintable T-shirt industry. But Charney is convinced that having a factory in America is critical to his success. "I'm a free-trader," he says. "I have no problem with lifting quotas and tariffs. I know my product will be better...
From the T-shirt and New York Fire Department baseball cap he sometimes wears, to the name of his local television show, “Common Perspective,” Hall’s campaign embodies that philosophy. Hall describes his run for the council as a grassroots campaign, one not affiliated with traditional political associations. For that reason, Hall has not sought political endorsements...