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...across the carousel. In October, the British company Uppercase will launch a new line of hand-stitched leather cases inspired by the elegant designs of the 1920s, but with the sturdiness of modern luggage. And you won't have to dig deep for this collection. Briefcases start at a meager $280, while a 69-cm-tall trolley case - big enough for a world trip - will set you back only...
...across the carousel. In October, Leicester, England-based Uppercase will launch a new line of hand-stitched leather cases inspired by the elegant designs of the 1920s, but with the sturdiness of modern luggage. And you won't have to dig deep for this collection. Briefcases start at a meager $280, while a 69-cm-tall trolley case - big enough for a world trip - will set you back only $650. The range is available in a variety of colors, from a traditional beige or black to an ultramodern neon pink. This is some emotional baggage you'll want to keep...
...full answer may have to wait for a new generation of telescopes expected to come on line within the next decade. In astronomy, size matters, especially for faraway objects. The bigger a telescope, the more of a distant galaxy's meager light it can gather--just as a swimming pool catches more rain than a bucket. So astronomers are looking forward to a ground-based monster with nearly 10 times the light-gathering area of the Keck, a space telescope more than 10 times as big as the Hubble and several radio telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity. Meanwhile, using the basic...
...northern end of Jibbayn, cutting the road to Teir Harfa village to which the UNIFIL convoy was hoping to proceed. "The Israelis have invaded our homes," wails Mustafa Kheir, 65, who says he refuses to leave Jibbayn because his crop of fresh tobacco leaves from which he derives a meager income is drying in the sun on a wire rack beside his house...
Instead, there was Reed, just 45 but with crow's-feet carved gently into his temples, offering a meager group of supporters a curt concession speech in a hotel ballroom in Buckhead last week. He had lost the primary to a little-known state senator named Casey Cagle in a 12-point landslide, Reed's once invincible lead in the polls and fund raising eroded by a year of steady revelations about his ties to the convicted former G.O.P. superlobbyist Jack Abramoff. In the political vernacular that Reed loves to employ, he was waxed...