Tim: here's one from a course I am giving now (I think you know which): let $B\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a nonempty subset. Then there is a norm on $\mathbb{R}^n$ whose open unit ball is $B$ iff $B$ is open, convex, symmetric and bounded. (I think it would be poor style to move "nonempty" into the 2nd sentence, since that is such an obvious condition, but that would make 5...)
Tony Scholl
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