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Celebrity moms want the best for their kids too, and the fact that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Suri Cruise turn up in paparazzi photos sporting the latest Lit'l Ernie jeans or Burberry dresses can only boost the trend. The next growth spurt? Get ready for celebrity-designed children's wear to jump into the playpen...
...trend is driven by the twin obsessions with chronicling one's life and experiencing fame. "We live in a culture where if it's not documented, it doesn't exist," says Josh Gamson, a University of San Francisco professor of sociology who studies culture and mass media. "And if you don't have people asking who you are, you're nobody." University of Pennsylvania sociologist David Grazian, who wrote On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife, calls personal paparazzi reality marketers, who make the act of being photographed more meaningful than the actual photos. "The goal...
Eventually, Tata Motors hopes to sell a million Nanos a year. Even before it goes on sale, though, it has become an important symbol of an emerging trend in the developing world, a new brand of innovation that makes more out of less and engineers clever but cheap fixes to problems that Western companies might throw expensive technology...
Vinyl records are just a small scratch on the surface when it comes to total album sales--only about 0.2%, compared to 10% for digital downloads and 89.7% for CDs, according to Nielsen SoundScan--but these numbers may underrepresent the vinyl trend since they don't always include sales at smaller indie shops where vinyl does best. Still, 990,000 vinyl albums were sold in 2007, up 15.4% from the 858,000 units bought in 2006. Mike Dreese, CEO of Newbury Comics, a New England chain of independent music retailers that sells LPs and CDs, says his vinyl sales were...
...civilian deaths were down by 75%. But a series of attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq in recent weeks have left many wondering whether the worst of the killing is really over. U.S. officials say it's too soon to tell whether the latest violence in Iraq represents a trend that could undo some of the security gains seen in recent months. Hertling warned, however, that extremists in Iraq remained determined to stage dramatic attacks and keep up killings, a message repeatedly stressed by other U.S. commanders even as overall violence lowers...