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...This fall, a Resource Efficiency Program (REP) initiative to encourage students to exchange incandescent bulbs for more environmentally friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) was almost too successful. Students flocked to exchange their gauche bulbs for the trendier CFLs, leaving REP sitting on thousands of the old-fashioned ones. Obviously, a program dedicated to resource efficiency couldn’t hide the stack behind the trash like the rest of us. What...
Tahari's post-disco designs helped popularize what's known as the bridge category--less expensive career-based clothing--in the early 1980s. Then, responding to the demand for trendier, more comfortable clothing, he started Theory in 1997 with former Anne Klein executive Andrew Rosen. The idea was to base a whole contemporary collection around stretch fabrics, particularly pants. Tahari sold his Theory stake for $53 million in 2003 (He is now suing Rosen for $182 million claiming "fraudulent self-dealing." Rosen calls the suit "a fantasy ... created in total disregard of the facts") and in 2004 made an unsuccessful...
...TWELVE J. Crew's Tie-of-the-Month club is the perfect answer to the holiday guy-gift conundrum. Recipients will get 12 new ties, one per month, starting in January. For $475 the assortment will include Cambridge ties made of English silk, above, as well as trendier, narrow-width ties in oxfords and plaids...
...just after noon at Cafe 103, one of the trendier spots in a trendy neighborhood, and young Berliners are indulging in three of their favorite vices: coffee, cigarettes and politics. A generation ago, smoke-filled establishments like these were hotbeds of debate about environmental catastrophes and the risk of nuclear war. But the patrons' obsessions have grown slightly more mundane. "The tax system here is driving us all to hell," says Max Wirtz, 37, the owner of an event-management agency. "Everything is too regulated." His friend Matthias, 37, nods in agreement and says what attracted him to the conservative...
...quick acceptance by offering low-priced (average item: $33), reliable products culled from closeouts and liquidations. The network heavily pushes such items as porcelain music boxes and imitation diamonds called cubic zirconia. But Home Shopping has started a second channel, HSN 2, which offers trendier, more expensive products, probably because that is the lucrative direction its rivals are taking...