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Remember your parents’ baseball? Kids could once spend an afternoon at the ballpark on a whim and some pocket change. Now, they almost have to choose between paying for a ticket and paying for college. Money in the game was running wild before, but the Red Sox’s splash has set an appalling new precedent that all fans will come to rue. Well done, baseball; you are managing to take the nation out of the national pastime...
...place still goes to such rare items as the Dutch-made Princess Daisy doll (1890), and the two exquisitely detailed tabletop layouts of Chinese rock gardens once owned by the Empress Josephine (1780), which, apart from being handcarved in wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl, look like giant Polly Pocket sets. But now, when the frustration of admiring - but not touching - everything from a 17th century rocking horse or Javanese shadow puppets through to vintage Playstations and Pokémon shoes gets too much, there are giant magnetic-doodle screens, fiber-optics and a wooden wave machine to play with...
...with about 100 other laid-off employees of the Aihai Talc Company to demand benefits they claim the firm had illegally withheld for nearly eight years. It is exceedingly rare for defendants charged with political crimes in China to escape conviction. But with Chen in his corner, brandishing a pocket-sized copy of China's criminal code as he punched hole after hole in the prosecution's charges, it seemed Zhao just might walk out of the courtroom a free...
...Angeles already under his belt, Quinn is digging deeper into the heart of the country, with a new location opening next month in Dallas. In addition to his hipster suits, Quinn offers up all the accoutrements one needs to be respectably attired. Think wildly patterned neckties and pocket squares, colorful cashmere turtlenecks, chisel-toe shoes and even umbrellas. As a head-to-toe look, it's sure to draw attention...
Style meets technology with Zegna Sport's new iJacket, below, a double-layered, waterproof shell with an inside pocket that accommodates an iPod. For easy use, the iPod is connected to a clear panel near the outside left cuff of the jacket that the wearer uses to control the iPod's functions without having to open the jacket or the inside pocket. The iJacket can be washed like a normal jacket, without any extra care...