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...when joined, will have the added advantage of accessing each other's customer files. Sears has data on 130 million customers, Lands' End on 30 million. Sears sends out 25 million credit-card statements every month--an easy way to distribute special offers on, say, a Lands' End golf shirt. "The two companies' strategies have been very different, but if they can leverage each other's strengths, you'll have a very powerful combination," says James Crawford, retail analyst for Forrester Research. Of course, that's what everyone said about AOL and Time Warner, so perhaps some caution...
Sandra McKeveny, 55, a mother of three from Pelham Manor, N.Y., buys from both Sears and Lands' End but says she has rarely walked through Sears' apparel floor. She acknowledges that while it might be nice to be able to touch and feel a Lands' End shirt before buying it, she will probably still just order from the catalog. She concedes, however, that now that she knows Sears will be stocking Lands' End goods, she might "wander off" to that department the next time she stops in for an appliance...
...Germany's Hohenstein Institute Textile Research Center are working on a range of healing clothes, including a fabric that combats dermatitis. The textile is woven with tiny repositories that contain an anti-dermatitis agent; in response to body heat, the fabric releases the agent onto the skin. The Life Shirt System by California's VivoMetrics, a prizewinner at this year's Avantex high-tech apparel fair in Frankfurt, allows patients who normally need regular hospital checkups to go about their business while the shirt continuously monitors their condition. And the JoyDress by Italian designer Alexandra Fede uses a network...
...think about the available actors, that knocks out about 90% of them." But the studio wasn't sold. "We made Tobey do a test because he's not the first person you think of," concedes Columbia chairman Amy Pascal. "He did a test, he took off his shirt, and then we all said...
...heartland. He's a dance musician who plays rock songs, a devout Christian who hates religious fervor, a scrawny bald guy who dates Christina Ricci and Natalie Portman, and an operator who sold every track on his last album, Play, for corporate use while often wearing a T shirt for anarchist punk group Minor Threat...