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• Japanese jeweler offers million-dollar tableware
The set by Ginza Tanaka includes goblets, plates, chopsticks and cutlery, each engraved with a dragon, which symbolizes eternal youth and health.
• Concern about future of arts in Indianapolis
The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, Dance Kaleidoscope that provides lessons at juvenile detention centers, and Asanti Theater are just a few of the arts programs for underserved children supported by the community.
• In a more diverse America, a mostly white RNC
Obama's "strategy is, 'If I can just deliver the votes that I know exist, whether it's in the minority community or the youth,' or whatever the coalition is that he's got . . . 'then I can win this election,' " Davis said.
• Beyond hotels: Hostels, couches and more
I have (mostly) fond memories of staying in $8-a-night youth hostels while traveling as a college student through the U.S. and Europe. Equipped with a sleep sack (two sheets my grandmother sewed together) and a worn pink towel, I biked my way from ...
• Big stars, big films in Toronto Festival lineup
Gross managed to raise $20 million for his production, which centers on a wounded sergeant who falls in love with a nurse, then becomes protector of her younger brother when the youth is shipped to the trenches.