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...million in the U.S., down from Like a Virgin's 7 million. Sex, her notorious $50 diary and sado-catechism, enjoyed a frenetic first-day sale in bookstores but quickly reached climax, then rolled over like a sated lover and went to sleep. It's true that her current caravan, traversing four continents and 20 cities (including New York last week, Philadelphia and Detroit this), is a smash. Biggest thing since the Who tour, you hear; biggest thing since the Rolling Stones. Alas, these fossils of Jurassic Rock are the merest nostalgia items; a fan wants to see them before...
...hippie one Life on the road and life on the wing are kind of similar, when you think about it. Perhaps that's why the Caravan birdhouse, created by U.S. home décor company Barnstorm with a sheet-metal roof and solid-wood chassis, has been such a hit among chirpers and humans alike - nearly 100,000 have been sold. Looks like camping is for the birds. www.firebox.com...
...Last month, when Almaraz and aides tried to pass through Larsen's Santa Cruz property - they insist it was the only route by which to reach to nearby indigenous Guarani residents to whom they were delivering land deeds - witnesses say the caravan was fired on by Larsen and his son Duston, 29. The incident was followed by two weeks of rancher roadblocks and violent protests that left 40 indigenous people injured...
...treasures from her travels-exquisite things with stories she understood. Antique daggers with an odd number of curves, as required by Javanese tradition; unusual batiks; rice-paddy hats. Before returning to Hawaii in 1984, Ann wrote her friend Dewey that she and her daughter would "probably need a camel caravan and an elephant or two to load all our bags on the plane, and I'm sure you don't want to see all those airline agents weeping and rending their garments." At his house in Chicago, Obama says, he has his mother's arrowhead collection from Kansas-along with...
...first, Obama's mother gave money to every beggar who stopped at their door. But the caravan of misery-children without limbs, men with leprosy-churned on forever, and she was forced to be more selective. Her husband mocked her calculations of relative suffering. "Your mother has a soft heart," he told Obama...