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...holiday getaway, Microsoft's Expedia www.expedia.com should be your first port of call. If you're globe trotting, try Travelocity www.travelocity.com) It can track your every stop and uses a powerful database. For a shot at the lowest fare you can get away with, try Priceline's ticket-auction site www.priceline.com) But don't hold your breath for a $10 standby to London. Most likely, that's just a cyberdream...
Those barren dorm room walls may have been acceptable in September, but now that midterms are over, they’re as tacky as keeping your Christmas lights out until Labor Day. Get in on the interior decorating action as 343 posters are auctioned at Skinners Auction Gallery. The selection ranges from The Seven Year Itch to The Day of the Triffids to Dirty Harry. And for you seniors courting first-years, try hanging Lolita or The Graduate over your bed for that suggestive effect. 3 p.m. 63 Park Plaza, Boston, 350-5400. FREE...
...decor of your room bespeaks HollywoodGlam, Skinner's Movie Poster Auction isnecessary hot spot to frequent this weekend.Cinemaphiles may take home original movie postersfrom Sunset Boulevard, Breakfast at Tiffany's,Psycho, and more. Invest in vintage posters,domestic and foreign, before they're going, going,gone. 3 p.m., Skinner's Auction Gallery,Heritage-on-the-Garden, 63 Park Plaza. FREE...
...designs by the husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames. A worldwide tour of their work is now at London's Design Museum and coming to the Library of Congress among other U.S. venues next year. Original Eames pieces fetch high prices. Bonhams, a London auction house, is holding a sale of the couple's furniture this week. The reserve price for a prototype dining chair: $20,000. For those with less extravagant budgets, the home division of Herman Miller, resurrected in 1994 after countless inquiries from the public about where to buy Eames furniture, has rereleased several...
EUREKA! A millennium-old manuscript, below, the oldest copy of a work by Greek mathematician Archimedes, sold last week at auction for $2.2 million. Works from other scientists also did well...