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Natural Instincts Clockwise from top: Alberta Ferretti wedge, $1,025 net-a-porter.com) Sergio Rossi wooden-bead and python sandal, $1,060 sergiorossi.com) Roberto Cavalli platform wedge, price on request robertocavalli.com) Elie Tahari Eden wedge, $325 elietahari.com) Bottega Veneta python sandal, $1,370 bottegaveneta.com...
Something Wild For the holidays, Piaget diamond, jet-bead and feather watch ($23,030, piaget.com...
...from this online shop. The replica jewelry looks startlingly modern, like the Lydian pierced-disk pendant ($58-$330, various sizes and materials) - based on one found in a 6th century B.C. tomb in what is now Turkey. The gilt-bead necklace - the original comes from Iron Age Tréglonou, Brittany - has a definite touch of class ($209). www.museesdefrance.com...
...stud technique that was popular in Lincolnshire, England, during the early 17th century. In one corner of its cellar the archaeologists found a butchered turtle shell and pig bones, as well as an Indian cooking pot with traces of turtle bone inside. Nearby were a Venetian trade bead, a sheathed dagger and a musketeer's kit bag. As a result, Kelso surmises that an Indian woman may have cooked for the inhabitants...
...still too early, post 9/11, to get an accurate bead on how much that day actually affected people's lives in a concrete way. But what you can say with confidence is that those slicing jets pierced the bubble of privileged optimism that many Americans had been enjoying. It changed the perception that there was an inside detached from an outside you could voluntarily avoid...