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Part of the proceeds from the auction will go to the AIDS Institute's newly opened Botswana lab, which is working to develop a vaccine and to prevent mother-to-infant transmission of the virus. Remaining proceeds will go to the 1999 Miss Universe Mpule Kwelagobe, who founded a village in Botswana to care for children orphaned by AIDS...
...exhibit is free of charge. Tickets for the auction dinner are available from the AIDS Institute, which organized the exhibit...
Websites are bringing buyers and sellers together in a variety of ways, including cooperative purchasing and catalog buying. Some of the more popular exchanges use so-called reverse auctions to play matchmaker. Here's how they work: a prospective buyer completes a request-for-quote form, the exchange matches it with prequalified suppliers, and they submit a quote. Some exchanges let vendors see other bids while the auction is under way, and others reveal the winning bid to vendors only after the auction. Either way, buyers can choose the quote that best suits their needs...
...second time in a week I had been steered to PayPal. A few days earlier, I won an auction on eBay, and the seller's listing said he accepted payment through PayPal and Billpoint. I knew these were the two leaders in the online-payment field, with millions of registered users between them, but I had never used either one. I decided to give PayPal...
...this collection someday. (They must hold their breath every time he tells the press how much he would love to see a photography museum established in London.) But if they covet his holdings, who can blame them? This is a collection few museums could just go out and buy. Auction and gallery prices for photos have been rising steeply, in part because of buyers like John. Seven years ago, he bid up the price of Glass Tears, Man Ray's landmark caprice from 1932, to $190,000, then a record for any photograph bought at auction. His collection is more...