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Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 important brands sold in America that we predict will disappear before 2014. This year’s list reflects the brutally competitive nature of certain industries and the importance of not falling behind in efficiency, innovation or financing. The list also reflects how industry trends can accelerate the demise of certain brands. This year, we included two magazines — Martha Stewart Living and Road & Track. With print advertising in a multiyear decline, some magazines have weathered the decline better than others. These two, however, have suffered sharp drops in advertising revenue over the past five...

Martha Stewart is now relying on the kindness of convicts to make herself pretty. Once a board member for cosmetics giant Revlon, the guru of good living borrowed makeup last weekend from a fellow prisoner at a federal lockup in West Virginia, one inmate told the Post. And one could bet it wasn't Chanel. Stewart, the inmate said, borrowed the cosmetics to make herself more presentable for her daughter, Alexis, who came to visit the disgraced domestic diva during her first days behind bars at the Federal Prison Camp in rural Alderson, W.Va. Also last weekend, Stewart was frequently interrupted...