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Best Inventions I was interested to read in "Best Inventions of the Year" [Nov. 10] that the Catholic Church had listed as one of its new deadly sins as "accumulating excessive wealth and creating poverty." This would presumably be the same Catholic Church that condemns a large portion of the Third World to continuing poverty due to its blinkered prohibition of contraception? And no doubt speaking from the opulent splendor of the Vatican? Bob Bury, LEEDS, ENGLAND...
...disrespect to the Québécois, but the Bixi bike system has been in place in Paris for more than a year [Nov. 10]. I'm sure Parisians would be miffed to find that a city - Montreal - that appropriated its language is now getting credit for a bike system, known in Paris as Vélib', that has already met with much acclaim across Europe. Jonah Peppiatt, BOSTON...
...STORES WORLDWIDE Comme des Garçons Line up for the cheap-and-chic retailer's latest collaboration with Comme des Garçons' avant-garde designer Rei Kawakubo (Nov...
...FRANCISCO YSL exhibit The first major retrospective of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent in over 25 years opens at the de Young Museum, with drawings, photographs, videos and 120 of his designs (Nov...
DOHA, QATAR Museum of Islamic Art Designed by I.M. Pei, this 376,740-sq.-ft. (35,000 sq m) museum's collection spans three continents and 13 centuries (Nov...