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...family saga is an epic tangle of true legends and legendary truths. The father, with his bottomless checkbook and flair for p.r., cast his clan in flawless Carrara marble, more beautiful than human flesh - but in the long run, less compelling. To his younger children - especially the youngest, Ted - fell the difficult job of reconnecting a family of statues, dead icons, to the living and the vital and the real. (See pictures of a Kennedy Family album...
...Leamer, marks the hinge in the Kennedy history - where the arc swings from romance to tragedy - as the day when Joe secretly had his oldest daughter, Rosemary, lobotomized in 1941. Her retardation was a blemish that he thought he might carve away. But for the public, the shadow first fell in 1944, when the oldest, and perhaps the most promising, of the Kennedys, Joe Jr., volunteered for a dangerous combat mission in an experimental flying bomb. The plane exploded before he could bail out. (See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage...
...Think it's a coincidence that while Abercrombie's second-quarter profits fell 134%, Aéropostale...
...global rush into green technology could be setting the stage for a most unusual comeback: the foul-smelling Trabant, the oft-ridiculed symbol of communist East Germany, all but disappeared from German roadways after the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago. But now its makers are planning to introduce a climate-saving electric version of the Trabi, as it was affectionately known...
...poured their savings into the Puer, causing prices to double, then triple. "People were buying anything," says David Lee Hoffman, a California collector. By 2007, the finest aged Puer was - quite literally - worth its weight in gold. As demand soared, however, quality suffered, fakes flooded the market and prices fell...