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...worked as a truck driver for the New York Daily News; his mom was a schoolteacher (she now runs a day-care center). Rock was bused from his black neighborhood in Bed-Stuy to a white high school in Bensonhurst. He says the students there were "worse than white trash--they were white toxic waste," and would beat him up regularly. Funny thing was, even though he was a misfit in Bensonhurst, after a while he didn't fit in back in Bed-Stuy either. And nobody in either place took him seriously. It was then Rock first realized...
...attitude, bad wardrobe, bad study habits. Tim Dunphy (Shawn Hatosy) arrives at snooty Cornwall Academy with all that baggage spilling out of the trash bag he carries in lieu of the suitcase he can't afford...
...before. Arriving at school late, she endured the cold, silent stares of 30 other children as the teacher found her a seat. When her mother abruptly vanished, she felt abandoned, and her sniffling escalated into wails. "I felt like a garbage can deposited at the curb on trash day," she recalls...
Today's design revolution extends beyond cars. It is reverberating from Detroit to Madison Avenue, from the automobile right down the product chain to such simple items as trash cans. Design magazines are hot (Architectural Digest is about to launch a new publication called Motoring). Moreover, signature design is no longer the realm of the snobby, afford-anything rich. Ask Martha Stewart, or the prominent architects and furniture and car designers who swap industries these days just to give products that extra mark of distinction. Thus Hirshberg, who began his career as a Pontiac designer, is doing a newspaper...
...EURO TRASH New to the U.S. market, high-yielding euro junk bonds are posting big returns while "safe" investments such as 10-year T bills are faltering. Why the appeal? Europe is deregulating its markets, stirring growth, competition and M&A activity similar to the U.S. in the '80s. The weakened euro is also expected to rebound against the dollar, but currency trading and high-yield bonds are risky. Don't bet the farm...