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...AUCTION $30,000 Amount paid for a pair of John Lennon's signature sunglasses at an auction of music memorabilia to benefit musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina $54,000 Amount paid at the April 21 auction for a saxophone belonging to former U.S. President Bill Clinton...
Edwards is similarly bold about global warming. He favors a mandatory 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, with an auction for the rights to pollute. He believes the auction will raise $30 billion to $40 billion, which he would spend on conservation and renewable-fuel technology. Like Al Gore, he is opposed to the construction of any more coal-fired power plants. Unlike Gore, he is opposed to a carbon tax. But the 80% reduction in carbon emissions, if successful, will cause the same sort of increase in energy prices that a carbon tax might. "It's time...
...freshman, Annie R. Shawn ’07 became a hot commodity after FM’s “freshman fifteen” hit the stands. “There was this date auction for Habitat for Humanity and Shannon Christmas [’04] bought a date with me for $220.” Awkward. Shawn plans on taking her hotness to the world of medicine after graduation where she will research drug addiction...
...NumbersART 9.2 million Amount paid at auction for Put Down Your Whip, a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong-the most ever for a painting by a Chinese artist $190 million Total sales of Asian contemporary art by auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's last year, up from $22 million...
KITT, the car from Knight Rider, is up for auction. Bids on the '82 Trans Am (one of four used on camera) start at $150K. But what of its '80s TV brothers in Armor...