Eponym of the week: Ned Ludd, the person from who the Luddites took their name. Long before its current computer-averse meaning, the Luddites were a 19th-century British group that resisted the new production methods of the Industrial Revolution. There's no solid proof that Ludd ever existed, but he was supposed to have been an English factory worker who broke knitting machines in a fit of rage.

High on the hog: The Hamptons region of Long Island, New York, is well-known as a summer ...

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