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• LEGO sells “police helicopter surveillance” kits for kids aged five to twelve. That is all. (Via Elizabeth Joh.)

• Speaking of which, a slightly related Today in Billionaires: “As billionaires and dealmakers descend upon Sun Valley, Idaho, for the Allen & Co. media conference that kicked off today, security personnel are on the lookout for a new kind of threat: drones,” report Anousha Sakoui and Sarah Frier in Bloomberg. “Event staff are watching the skies for unmanned aerial vehicles that could photograph, harass or harm attendees at the annual gathering of business executives….”

• Chelsea Clinton not only made $600,000 a year at NBC; she also banks up to $75,000 a pop as paid speaker.

• Can a trendy new bar gentrify a neighborhood, ironically?

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