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...what's next? "People have started buying big things," says Narita. "You can even buy a helicopter or a $3.2 million tanzanite gem on a cell phone...
...JEWELER VAN CLEEF & ARPELS to an expert, and he or she will rhapsodize about the company's enhancement of stones with the minimum use of metal, and its famous clientele, including such style icons as Marlene Dietrich, Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor. But the real gem of Van Cleef is the craftsmanship?the seemingly invisible settings, and the sway and movement in the designs. Today the pieces are created as intricately as they were when the house, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, opened. All the high jewelry pieces are still made in Fort...
...every collector's fantasy. An afternoon in an antique shop produces a gem that lights up a dim piece of the past. This was the seductive story on offer in Beijing last week when lawyer and collector Liu Gang unveiled a map that, he says, proves the Chinese had detailed knowledge of world geography long before the voyages of Columbus, Magellan and da Gama brought such insights to Europe. This "Overall Map of the Geography of All Under Heaven," which Liu says he bought for $500 in Shanghai's Dongtai Road Antique Market, includes notes claiming it was drawn...
...thing it needed was the disclosure in the New York Times that Vice President Cheney's residence is intentionally blurred on Google Earth-- the software that allows users to see satellite photos of any spot on the planet--though the White House itself is visible. Bush-bash bloggers like GEM'S GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE cheered, "Maureen Dowd Is the Best!!" for her column crying hypocrisy over what she called the Veep's "pathological secrecy." OGLE EARTH, however, deemed Dowd's piece little more than a "conspiracy theory," and ANGEL DRESSED IN BLACK asked, "Does anyone really think that...
...technicians at the mixing boards are currently at the top of their game: Philly dumpster-diving prodigy Diplo, sexy French electroboys Air, and not one, but two splinter-groups from one-album wonders the Unicorns, to name a few.Two more poppy Frenchmen, Octet, steal the show by recasting bubblegum gem “Girl” as a melodramatic aria, sung at the climax of a new-age murder opera. They cut out all the lead vocals of the chorus, thus negating the longstanding debate over whether our hero is saying “sun-eyed?...