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...controversial drugs and surgical techniques could be tested on criminal volunteers. The prisoner's brain provided a unique opportunity to study a criminal mind -- "an intact, living" brain, he emphasized. Further, from each prisoner might be harvested enough organs to save half a dozen lives. He has proposed an auction market in which rich people would bid for organs, and the money could be used to provide them to the poor for free...
...Liberace isn't around anymore to enjoy Christie's auction of the Crown Jewels...
Scheduled next for the auction block are Intourist hotels, state-owned hard- currency shops and 5,600 major factories, including the Vladimir tractor factory in central Russia...
...pulled a fast one. Granted, the cash was fake, but Edwards and her pupils had been using the money to learn some basic lessons in economics. Now, instead of studying supply and demand, the class was busy congratulating the thieves on their daring raid. Edwards' response? She held an auction -- only ersatz dollars allowed. The students' admiration swiftly evaporated as boxes of candy and toys went on the block and the pirates began buying up everything in sight. More effective than any punishment Edwards could have imposed, the furious debate that ensued on ethics and hyperinflation virtually...
...square-foot retail and office behemoth, home to The Limited and British record store chain HMV, sent its developer, Ivanhoe Ltd. Partnership, into bankruptcy. One Brattle Square was sold in foreclosure auction this summer for $30 million to Sumitomo Trust, the Japanese bank that financed the building, according to John P. DiGiovanni, vice president of Trinity Property Management...