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...duped into buying high-quality fake Gucci bags--and promptly took them off the shelves when Gucci complained.) China's counterfeiters have a system for classifying their reproductions. Bags that are virtually indistinguishable from the originals are class AA. This merchandise is exported almost exclusively to the West. Grade-A or -B fakes sell for less in the bazaars of China--although some make their way to U.S. street stalls. Hong Kong residents stock up on fakes across the border, at Shenzhen's multi-story mall, where fluorescent-lit shops sell pirated Chinese-made DVD players, sneakers and top-quality...
GENRE Weapons-grade military techno-thriller...
DIED. PAULA DANZIGER, 59, author of more than 30 children's books, whose flamboyant style and comic writing connected with grade-schoolers and young adults alike; of a heart attack; in New York City. In 1974 she penned The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, detailing the trials of junior-high life, and later the popular Amber Brown series, about a precocious third-grader...
BOSTON HARBOR—“Except for the whole thunder and lightning part, this camping trip was really fun,” one of my eighth grade students at Summerbridge Cambridge said to me cheerfully, without a touch of irony in her voice...
After seeing the way our eighth grade students and staff made the most of the camping trip where everything went wrong, I found myself filled with an appreciation for the powerful connections that can be made when a group decides not to let a few rain drops—or maybe even a downpour—get in the way of a chance to bond...