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Lauren plans to test his mythic chic with several new lines targeted directly at Generations X and Y, that $250 billion demographic of teens and twentysomethings who are increasingly driving the fashion marketplace. There Polo/RL has to fight with Hilfiger, Abercrombie & Fitch and a host of upstart brands. It's a battle in full swing. "Polo's kind of peaked," says Robert Tucker, 21, a bike messenger in New York City; "the thing right now is Pelle Pelle," an urban street-wear label. "Polo's not yesterday's brand at all," counters Nicole DeMers, 15, of Incline Village, Nev. "Certain...
Adolescents are, by their nature, heartless, randy and, as all the books inform their frantic parents, eager to test authority's limits. In other words, they have an affinity for Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Now that a young writer-director named Roger Kumble has turned Pierre Laclos's malevolent, much adapted minor masterpiece into a nastily assured teen flick, one has to wonder why it took so long for somebody to age-down its louche protagonists and update its setting...
...prejudices of its members in New York magazine. Here, instead of reporting on the foibles of the black upper crust, Graham sucks up to it, providing little more than a breathless list of neighborhoods, vacation spots and social clubs dominated by folks who can pass the "brown paper bag" test, meaning that their complexion is lighter than a grocery bag. His criteria for including an institution in the elite class are that he either belongs to it or would like...
CANCER CHECK-UP If you're 50 or over, don't forget to get screened for colon cancer. A new 20-year study shows that yearly screenings can reduce colon-cancer deaths by a third. The test is simple--even for the squeamish: a small stool sample is placed on a card and analyzed for blood...
CHEAPER GAS, PUMPED FOR YOU Hate jumping out of your car to pump gas, but rather not pay for full service? This summer, Shell Oil plans to test its Smart Pump automatic fueling system, in which a large robotic arm opens your gas cap, fills the tank, closes the cap, and bills your credit card, all in about three minutes, while you relax or buy coffee. First available in Indianapolis, the Smart Pump will require a special gas cap (installed by Shell) and will read a sensor installed in the car window to detect your fuel type, locate your...