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It’s a powerful weapon if you know how to use it, but has the potential to look truly terrible if styled poorly. Get it right and you’re Marlon Brando. Get it wrong and you’re a mid-life crisis personified. Half the battle is wearing it with confidence. Nothing looks more contrived than a guy in a leather jacket who seems unsure of himself. In order to really nail that devil-may-care, rockstar air that goes hand in hand with this piece of outerwear, you need to approach it with conviction. And that’s a hell of a lot easier if you actually know...

Police in Morgan Hill, Calif., are searching for a white box van they believe was involved in the robbery of several irreplaceable bicycles from Specialized headquarters. According to police, burglars made off with “a large collection of one of a kind prototypes, race-winning, and personally owned bikes Specialized had on display in their building.” Specialized estimates the collection, which includes bikes ridden in the Tour de France, Olympics, and Paris-Roubaix, is worth about $160,000. The bikes are so valuable, Specialized immediately issued a $25,000 bounty for the arrest of the thieves and recovery of the museum-worthy bicycles. Police said surveillance footage...

s According to the National Retail Federation, eCommerce accounted for 20.9% of total holiday sales in 2019, and that number seems to increase every year. As a result, you have the opportunity to position your online shop in front of a huge base of consumers who are actively browsing the web with intent to purchase goods. The smartest marketers prepare for website traffic increases not only by prepping their website for higher-than-normal traffic and optimizing it for mobile devices, but also by giving their website design a dose of holiday cheer. It all starts with the homepage: The first page...

At 80-plus degrees and my stomach full of stir fry, the conditions weren’t ideal. Still my wife Kate and I had decided that the post-dinner hour was our only chance that day to offset our sedentary jobs as college professors teaching via Zoom. Because it was my turn to put the kids to bed, I’d have time for three miles tops, and running would mean leaving Beckett, 11, and Ellie, 8, home alone after dark, which we’d never done. But we were confident they’d be safe in the embrace of their iPads. So Kate and I left, she heading one...

s   The reading wars have been going on for decades. The more I read tweets by teachers the more I understand why the wars have been going on for so long. Many teachers are unwilling to discuss with an open mind. They are like the prince in an Indian fable who had caught a three legged rabbit and started proclaiming that all rabbits are three legged. They are exactly what Charlie Munger had described about the human egg.   I cannot believe that senior teachers are not aware of the many different sounds represented by letters. One of the...