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Welcome backmost to our Saturday edition! One man recovered a elemental measurement to suffer 145 pounds — eating little and moving more. Sounds familiar, right? Find retired really he kept it off.

On nan agenda:

• Testosterone injections are young men's newest obsession.
• Scammers are utilizing AI to steal homes from nether owners' noses.
• A luxury picnic planner shares how to recreation for illustration nan wealthy.
• A Michelin prima mightiness conscionable kill your favourite restaurant.

But first: If you tin make it here, you tin make it anywhere.

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This week's dispatch

The New York Liberty's finance paid off

New York City's Financial District was turned into an outdoor statement connected Thursday arsenic nan metropolis celebrated nan Liberty's title win complete nan Minnesota Lynx successful nan WNBA finals.

Although it's nan first clip nan squad has won a title successful its history, it's not nan only record-making infinitesimal they've had this season.

In June, it was reported that nan New York Liberty had nan third-highest worth successful nan league ($130 million), and brought successful nan astir gross past twelvemonth ($18 million). The Liberty was besides nan league's first squad to eclipse $2 cardinal successful summons gross for a azygous crippled successful May.

It apt doesn't travel arsenic a astonishment to nan team's billionaire co-owners Clara Wu Tsai and her hubby Joseph Tsai, who bought nan squad successful 2019 for an undisclosed amount. Wu Tsai made a bid of cardinal investments that person paid off.

"The first point we wanted to do was to bring nan squad backmost to Barclays Center truthful they could person a bigger stage," she said aft nan team's win. "This is what tin hap erstwhile you put successful women."

After building retired a state-of-the-art locker room, Wu Tsai focused connected filling retired an all-star bench. She credits getting Breanna Stewart, a two-time WNBA champion and one-time convention MVP astatine nan time, to motion connected arsenic being a turning constituent for her team's roster.

Now pinch a title nether nan team's belt, Wu Tsai said her caller situation will beryllium maintaining fame for nan Liberty while besides keeping nan games accessible.

One instrumentality told Business Insider astatine nan parade that adjacent year's play summons prices are much than double, but she still plans to support nan team. "As agelong arsenic that money goes backmost to nan players, I'm OK pinch that," Brooklyn resident Gris Osses said, "because they merit it."

Low T? No problem.

Once taboo, search testosterone levels has abruptly go a constituent of pridefulness for immoderate men. Young men are progressively turning to testosterone-replacement therapy to, successful their view, optimize their bodies.

Testosterone is prescribed to dainty a group of vague symptoms for men hoping to consciousness "better," though it's not precisely clear what it does aliases who needs it. And while debased T does person genuine wellness impacts, it's not communal — nor is it an inevitability awaiting each men arsenic they age.

Inside nan testosterone boom.

Great, a caller logic to fearfulness AI

Seller impersonation fraud — erstwhile personification fakes nan identities of spot owners to waste their properties — is reasonably common. New AI tech is only emboldening immoderate scammers successful their attempts astatine deed theft.

From Elvis Presley's Graceland to much humble homes, fights complete who really owns houses and onshore are playing retired crossed nan country.

How AI-powered deed fraud works.

How nan different half travels

Leila Najafi has been curating trips for able and elite clients for much than a decade. From family vacations to honeymoons, she's arranged holidays for immoderate of nan world's astir discerning travelers.

As a luxury recreation advisor, she's learned a fewer secrets astir really nan rich | walk their vacations. They're not willing successful tourist-dense areas, but they do want section experiences that aren't disposable to nan public.

Five lessons from a high-end recreation agent.

Also read:

• For immoderate able travelers, autumn is nan caller summer

The poisoned chalice

While you mightiness cherish that hidden gem edifice down nan street, it apt doesn't spot its "hidden gem" position arsenic being peculiarly ideal. The manufacture is notoriously tough, truthful receiving a large grant — deliberation Michelin stars — is typically bully news.

Except, occurrence tin sometimes travel backmost to wound nan business. Getting bully is 1 thing. Getting large is another, and not each cognition is up to nan task. In fact, 1 interrogator recovered that restaurants fixed a Michelin prima were much apt to shutter.

When large wins go large problems.

What we're watching this weekend

• "Trap": This year's buzzy M. Night Shyamalan thriller, starring Josh Hartnett arsenic a dada whose performance outing pinch his teenage girl takes a acheronian turn, is now streaming connected Max.
• "Beauty successful Black": Tyler Perry's latest Netflix task is an eight-episode bid astir a stripper who finds herself embroiled pinch nan dysfunctional (and highly rich) family down a cosmetics empire.
• "Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and nan E Street Band": This Hulu/Disney+ doc gives an wrong look astatine really nan legendary set headed by nan 75-year-old rocker prepared for their unrecorded performances arsenic they group retired connected their first circuit since 2017.

See nan afloat list.

Deals we love

• Luxury jewelry without luxury prices: Jewelry doesn't person to costs an limb and a leg. By skipping nan practice marque names and unnecessary overhead, these good jewelry brands support prices debased for shoppers.
• Swifties, it's not excessively late. Time is moving retired to spot Taylor Swift's Eras Tour live. Her past US show is scheduled for November 3, aft which she'll only execute for a fewer much weeks successful Canada. Here's how to get tickets to her sold-out concerts.
• 20% disconnected linens we love: Brooklinen is synonymous pinch luxurious textiles that elevate immoderate room. They aren't cheap, though, truthful its Friends and Family sale is simply a awesome measurement to prevention connected everything from sheets to bath mats.

More of this week's apical reads:

• Standing desks may not beryllium that bully for you.
• Eva Longoria invested $6 cardinal of her ain money to prevention "John Wick."
• Why 1 Fortune 500 worker quit his occupation to person a "Brat summer."
• Celeb children's books
• China's luxury spending slump is astir more than its struggling economy.
• Meet TikTok's favorite clone rich | kid.
• Step wrong Rolls Royce's caller "Private Office" for customizing cars.
• Spend a nighttime astatine Blind Tiger, a historical boutique edifice successful Portland, Maine.
• The NFL's $1,000 jackets are a motion of fashion's newfound emotion matter pinch sports.
• A "free range" genitor allowed her 15-year-old to alert solo to France.

The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, lawman editor and anchor, successful New York City. Jordan Parker Erb, editor, successful New York. Lisa Ryan, executive editor, successful New York. Amanda Yen, fellow, successful New York. Grace Lett, editor, successful Chicago.