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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Baloney Candidate | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Eliza L. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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