Just ask Matt Hannifin, who has run the jewel box-like Science Toy Magic Shop in Santa Fe, N.

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The jewel box shop stocks nothing but leather gloves, in a dizzying array of shades and styles, and the staff is patient as you work your way through the choices deerskin or nappa?

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If "The Sopranos: The Complete Series" is the jewel among this season's box sets, it is far from the only example of what's become a prime gift for the gift-giving season.

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In the course of introducing a film at the Sheridan Opera House, a beautiful little jewel box of a theater that dates back to the 19th century, a bright young woman said Sandra Bernhard had played there.

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Gordon Ramsay at the London is a small, gleaming jewel box of a space with gentle lighting and easy-conversation acoustics.

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Six days a week you can watch some of the rarities among the museum's 23, 000 film titles in its Dryden Theatre -- a 500-seat jewel-box with a real curtain that rises to uncover the screen before each showing.

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He envisions it as a "jewel box of environment with no distractions" where brides can spend the day in comfort.

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One could argue that football, with its jewel-box 16-game season, is already a sport less about the action than the spaces in between.

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Although Enron's accounts remain a black box, there are growing suspicions that even its energy-trading business the jewel that Dynegy wanted so badly may not have been as impressive as it seemed.

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