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...which runs June 16-25. The event showcases the city's architecture and creative talent and explores the architectural evolution of form, infrastructure and landscape through talks, walks, exhibitions and film. "It's important people understand the way the city was made [into] what it is today," says Biennale founder and director Peter Murray...
...Zedong's unsmiling visage inspired Andy Warhol and adorns China's currency. Now the original portrait of the founder of the People's Republic is--heresy!--going under the hammer in Beijing on June 3. Painted in 1950 by art-school instructor Zhang Zhenshi, the image was reproduced and distributed across China--and was the model for the portrait that still looms over Beijing's Tiananmen Square...
...There's been a huge surge in the business for roller luggage in the last two years," says Peter Cobb, a vice president and co-founder of eBags.com an online luggage purveyor that averages 170,000 hits a day. "They used to be only for business trips, but now people are using them as briefcases every day, and they're buying them like fashion items, every six months...
...Please The easiest way to identify luggage on the claim carousel is still old-fashioned initials. The idea of customizing travel gear started in France in 1854, when Louis Vuitton, a purveyor of steamer trunks, began hand-painting initials on its goods. Gaston-Louis, a grandson of Vuitton's founder, was obsessed with the trend of customization, particularly the use of stickers as a way of identifying a trunk's journey around the world. Today Louis Vuitton still offers personalization services--including hand-painting initials, stripes and crests in a choice of 15 colors...
...Coming The question at the heart of the fraud trial of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling involves the men's awareness of Enron's accounting and financial manipulations?a minefield that Sherron Watkins, one of TIME's 2003 Persons of the Year, recognized long before the company collapsed...