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...surprisingly, the already battered travel industry is eager to capitalize on the trend. Carroll Rheem, director of research at PhoCusWright, a consulting firm in Sherman, Conn., that follows the travel sector, says pink-slip trips are particularly common among those who receive sizable severance packages - i.e., the lawyers and Wall Street types who are confident they'll find another job soon enough. ?If they have the time and they have the money, people are stepping back after a lay-off and thinking, 'Hey, why not?" she says...
Tiny Houses (Rizzoli) With large-scale living now passé, journalist Mimi Zeiger examines the new "microgreen" housing trend in this collection of prefab and modular homes...
With the global economy out of shape, some designers have decided to play it safe. Others, however, have chosen to experiment with 3-D patterns and metallic cutouts that add a retro-futuristic touch to last season's graphic trend. For his spring collection, Oscar de la Renta embroidered navy stripes on formal dresses in a modern harlequin design. Armani Casa's printed armchair and Verner Panton's rug appear to have been cut from the canvases of Victor Vasarely's Op art paintings from the '60s, while armored Coach bags and caged boots from Yves Saint Laurent showcase...
...mature with you. Yes, the Kindle has an auto-scroll feature, but it’s not going to help the words leap off the page. If anything, they just become flat and confined on the “no-glare” screen.The Kindle is part of a trend that has contributed to the decline of the art of paper over the last twenty years. With the development of the internet, newspapers and magazines have been left gasping on the deck of popular irrelevancy—even the New York Times, the Holiest of Dailies. Letter writing has gone...
...percent in the first quarter of the year—less than the 4.7 percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2008. The index also forecasted declines of 3.1 percent in the second quarter and 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009. But despite the encouraging projected trend, economists said that the news was far from positive. “We don’t appear to be in free fall anymore,” said James H. Stock, the chair of Harvard’s economics department, who also helped develop the methodology behind the index a decade...