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Some companies are trying to hide the functionality of luggage altogether. Valextra, the Italian high-end leather-goods brand, recently came out with the Avietta, a sleek leather briefcase sporting a hidden handle and silent synthetic wheels that took three years to develop. "I wanted to give the businessman something that could jump from the airplane right into a board meeting," says Massimo Suppancig, CEO of Valextra...
...being the Bay Area, not everyone is thrilled. Longtime residents say Brown is driving up rents and tax assessments. Hard-boiled leftists say Brown has sold off the city's commercial heritage to profiteers. And affordable-housing advocates want builders to provide various givebacks and mitigations before putting up high-end condos--a demand Brown, sounding more like an Orange County conservative, can't fathom. "The problem with that is that this is just one of 100 possible markets where private developers can put their money. If we make it even a little harder to come here, they...
...label. "These days we try an use our own word for homeboy an so we just call ourselves desis." That word basically means countrymen in Hindi, but in Londonstani it seems to embrace any young gangsta wannabe who fancies bling jewelry, designer hooded sweatshirts, Bollywood film divas, high-end mobile phones and senseless violence. A former "coconut" - brown outside, white inside - Jas has given up his studious ways to hang out with a gang of more authentic desis: Hardjit, a well-muscled Sikh who likes to beat up goras and Muslims suspected of fancying Indian girls; sheeplike Ravi...
...DESIGN TOUCHSTONE Zipcar's fleet consists of over 20 makes and models, 15 percent of which are hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Toyota RAV4 and Ford Escape SUVs. Also available are high-end vehicles like the Mini Cooper and BMW 325i, and soon, the BMW 5 Series. The cars can be found scattered around cities like Boston and San Francisco, or in places like New York state commuter rail stations, Washington Metro stations, or Ikea stores, some of which reserve parking spots for Zipcars...
...offer from U.S. hedge-fund manager James Rosenwald to set up shop in Shanghai, where Shu runs a China fund for Rosenwald's firm, Dalton Investments. He is also director of Dalton affiliate Grand River Investments, a private-equity firm that, among other things, invests in and manages high-end real estate in Shanghai, a city crawling with the new rich. Shu himself recently bought and has been refurbishing an elegant old house in central Shanghai. He's now 39, and, he says, "I don't have a lot of complaints with this picture, either...