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...they survive the hype? While Pearl Jam, Nirvana and their colleagues have a real message to deliver, most of this was overlooked during the past two years by trend watchers who were more interested in the way they dressed and the Seattle scene they came from. Style mavens fixed upon the thrift-shop wardrobe of flannel shirts and torn corduroy jackets, dubbing it the grunge look. For a fashion shoot, Vanity Fair dressed Manhattan socialites and celebrities in flannel and denim. All this exploitation made the term grunge deeply unfashionable among American youth, but bands like Pearl Jam have shaken...
...foreign soldier casualties in Afghanistan have topped those in Iraq, Obama's anticipated next stop on a trip that will also take him to Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and Britain, even though the Iraqi theatre has more than twice as many troops. So far it looks as if the trend will continue in July. On the 6th Taliban forces raided an outpost in Eastern Afghanistan, killing 9 US soldiers in the greatest single loss of American soldiers since a helicopter was shot down...
...which, Edwards argues, not only diminishes the worth of trademark protection in the Internet age, but also discourages grass-roots entrepreneurship. "Our best inventions have usually come from the little guy," says Edwards. "I see this trend dissuading them." If she's right, it would be one more example of how the Internet promises us everything except accountability...
...recent years, several foreign insects, spiders and beetles have been discovered in Britain, a trend many attribute to the ability of such species to survive winters warmed by climate change. In 2005 Edinburgh Zoo issued a public notice after several panicked Scots reported seeing a spider called a false widow, which has a disconcerting behavior of rushing toward people who approach it. The spider turned out to be quite common--in the Canary Islands...
...first question appears to have an easy answer. Most reports credit South Korean chain Red Mango with starting the trend when it began selling tart frozen yogurt in 2002, years before Pinkberry opened the first similar store in the U.S. Soon there were dozens of shops offering the treat, and as the market grew crowded, the competition grew fierce, with law suits and allegations of peddling unnatural "yogurt" flying between store owners...