A few weeks ago I talked to a man whose wife had just been killed in an auto accident. She was very well liked at the school where she worked and the school system shut down on Monday for her funeral. On the day the teachers came back to work, they found this poem in their e-mail which the woman had sent on Friday before she left school.  read more

GOLDEN EDITION: The gold and diamond special edition of Kohl is valued at $10,000, but should sell for much more at a charity auction in October.
A golden and diamond-encrusted edition of the Middle East�s leading Asian women�s magazine will be auctioned for charity in October and is expected to fetch more than $10,000.  read more

DYNAMIC TOWER: Italian architect David Fisher announces the world's first building in motion in New York. (Getty Images)
The "Dynamic Tower", a slender, shifting skyscraper of rotating luxury apartments, was presented in project-form Tuesday in New York by Italian architect David Fisher, before it goes up in Dubai.  read more