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MCLEAN, VA. Southern belles from Temple St. Clair's home state swoon over her Vine Granulated ring ($1,400), available at Saks Fifth Avenue...
...Paris aren't the only ones suffering from sticker shock. The dollar fell to a near-record low of $1.33 to the euro at the end of last week. It has shed about six cents since early November, shattering months of calm on currency markets, causing a mini-swoon on some stock exchanges and prompting French Finance Minister Thierry Breton to call for "great collective vigilance." The dollar has also slid against the British pound, which closed last week just a few cents short of $2, its highest in 14 years. Many investors are betting that the decline will continue...
There's more science than sorcery in the way we eyeball faces and respond to what we see. Our species wouldn't survive if we weren't suckers for what's called neoteny--features like large eyes, an oversize head and a gumdrop nose that signal babyness. We swoon at such traits in people and animals, which is one evolutionary explanation for why we rush to the aid of a lost child or stray puppy instead of, you know, eating them. Stanford University studies showed that the same area of the brain that responds to faces also processes objects like...
...market-driven world," he writes. As a professional daydreamer, Gurr's writing drifts off in wicked thought: "On the early trains, slightly damp hair and recently applied make-up give you access to bodies so lately asleep or naked that it can induce a sensation like the swoon of a long kiss...
...Although he concedes that Wynn "does a very good job at the high end of the market" and "a good job at design," he adds that Wynn loses money on the bottom line. "Steve Wynn's objective is to get everybody to say he does a nice design and swoon over his design, and he obviously doesn't care about making money," says Adelson. "So why should I be concerned about a guy like that...