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...most fascinating developments seems to be that crack is now your father's drug. Users are maturing, if not heading into middle age, and dealers are less aggressive in recruiting youths, who tend to be turned off by crack's devastation (and more interested in the trendier, mellower highs of drugs like heroin). And the business has become more, well, mature as turf wars have been decided and trade has shifted from street sales to indoor client-list transactions. Then there's the bottom-line dictum offered by an expert: "Killing is bad for business...
There's a good reason why ABC can't make up its mind about television's role in American culture. The major networks are always scrambling to read the public's mind in search of a hit show, so original programs are rarely given a chance while trendier, derivative material easily finds its way onto the air. (Remember the season of failed "Friends" clones a few years ago?) Quality and originality might actually help ABC out of its ratings slump. But the fall schedule shows no signs of change, full of familiar-sounding shows like "Genie," a 90's version...
...Alexander McQueen, just 27. A charming, egregiously talented pixie of a man, Galliano took over the house of Givenchy last year but has already moved on to preside over Christian Dior, considered--along with Chanel--the most important French fashion empire. McQueen, an East Ender previously unknown outside the trendier London precincts, was named to succeed his countryman at Givenchy...
...spent. Energy officials are searching for the records and tightening up accounting procedures. Critics inside the department point to other expenditures that stem from O'Leary's zeal for burnishing the agency's image. Last year, Energy Department officials told TIME, the agency spent $10,182 drawing up trendier designs for its logo. O'Leary abandoned the idea after aides learned that it would cost $1.7 million for new logos on all the flags, seals and stationery...
...Kristen Sudholz, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, says the mix between larger, trendier stores and smaller, more traditional shops already exists in the Square...