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...Soon after the art of photography emerged in the mid-19th century, photographing naked women became one of the first orders of business. The French ruled the early days of pornography publishing, distributing programs for Parisian cabarets adorned with topless dancers as early as the 1870s. While some Americans attempted to import racy material from Europe, the industry was blunted in the U.S. by the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal statute that restricted the transport of obscene literature through the mail. (Anthony Comstock, the head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, was perhaps the anti-Hefner...
...collectible footwear took off: "Launched just at the moment Japan's sneaker boom went into overdrive, the old-school appeal of BAPE STA distinguished themselves from the techy, streamlined look that characterized athletic footwear of the mid- to late-1990s. ... For BAPE addicts outside Japan, the existence of STAs soon passed from rumor to legend. The Beastie Boys, N.E.R.D., Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Usher, Kanye West, and a host of other hip-hop V.I.P.'s began rocking them not only in private, but on stage, on MTV, and even in the lyrics of their songs... the 2005 arrival of BAPE...
...warren of side-streets, ancient storefronts and crumbling housing complexes, a scrappy group of designer/proprietors, many of them looking fresh out of high school, began to open apparel stores... enterprising magazine editors took to calling this retailing boom-let the "Ura-Harajuku Movement" and the semantic hype was soon matched by its transformative effect on fashion and youth culture. With "identity" as their organizing principle, and the "limited-edition" as its vehicle, the constituent parts of this movement introduced design and retailing concepts not yet seen in Japan - or anywhere else...
...Stanasolovich, CEO of Legend Financial Advisors in Pittsburgh, is eying a few reopened funds for clients - Artisan Mid Cap Value and Schneider Small Cap Value are long-time favorites - but he's not looking to buy anytime soon. "Historically speaking, three months before the end of a recession, when things feel the worst, it's usually a good time to buy," says Stanasolovich. "I just don't think we're coming out of this recession anytime soon...
...help comes none too soon, as the Florida housing market, particularly in the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, founders under the weight of tens of thousands of foreclosures. And the problem is only getting worse. (Read Exclusive Mutual Funds Reopen for Business...