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...Price at a London auction last week for a bar of soap purportedly crafted out of fat extracted from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during liposuction...
Leonardo Taormina, 42, has been told that he must pay $52,000 for the same coverage he could barely afford last year at $22,000. "There's no way I can pay that and make money," he says. Because the price of fish is based on auction prices at the Boston Fish Pier, he explains, fishermen cannot simply raise their prices to pass along increased costs. Nor can Mark Godfried, 49, meet the cost of coverage for his 50-ft. Stella G. After spending more than $20,000 converting the craft from a side trawler to a more efficient stern...
...acre homestead in Princeton, N.J., called Jasna Polana after Leo Tolstoy's Russian estate, though what Tolstoy would have thought of its air-conditioned doghouse is hard to say. Even before the bequest that may make her one of the world's wealthiest women, she cut a swath through auction houses, and recently spent a staggering $4.8 million for a drawing by Raphael and $1.5 million for a Louis XVI cabinet...
...EBay Watch Bayraider bayraider.tv Bayraider ferrets out the silliest, freakiest stuff being auctioned on eBay and other auction sites-a laser-etched Buddha, say, or the Slightly Used and Possibly Defective Husband kit-and provides direct links to where you can place your bid. There are things you may actually want, too. Discoveries are organized by category (Music, Sporty Stuff, Weird). New from Shiny Media, a U.K. weblog company...
...bought majority stakes in Sina, the country's largest portal, and a host of other online gaming companies. Next up, Shanda, in collaboration with Intel, hopes to introduce a set-top box that will enable users to access everything from news, music and movies to games and online auction sites. Currently, only 20 million Chinese own computers, but 330 million have TVs. Will interactive TV catch on? "The Chinese are very fast learners," he says. His own history is proof of that. -By Hannah Beech/Shanghai...