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...Freeze-drying human bodies, however, would be an expensive proposition -- about $15,000 to $18,000 apiece. Since there is no law in Florida against freeze-drying humans, however, all it would take for such a perpetual viewing chapel to take root, so to speak, would be a mortuary license, a corpse, someone living willing to shell out $15,000 to $18,000, and, of course, one of the machines...
...columns and the walls lined in Italian gold onyx and the ceiling moldings of 23-karat gold. When his eyes rise to that ceiling, where various mythological heroes have been painted "in the Michelangelo style," Trump feels himself a Medici. "If this were on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel," he says, "it would be very much in place in terms of quality. This is really what you call talent, more talent than the schmucks who go around throwing paint on the canvas...
...call it. Jordan, then a freshman at the University of North Carolina, nailed a 17-ft. jumper to win the school's first national championship in 25 years. Over the next two seasons, as accolades and awards poured in, Jordan maintained a healthy perspective. Dean Smith, the coach at Chapel Hill, had a lot to do with that. "Coach Smith challenged us on the court," says Jordan, "but also encouraged us in the classroom...
...gold mirror tile ceiling. Then, if time and security permit, it's on to the private quarters on the top three floors of the building: a sprawling 7,000-sq.-ft. living area with a 12-ft. waterfall and hand-painted ceiling he compares unblushingly to the Sistine Chapel's, a dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides, and a library with hand-carved ivory panels. All is beige...
...make an eternal toy. The best of them are infinitely simple and endlessly entertaining. There are nearly 103 million ways, for example, in which six eight-stud Lego bricks of the same color can be joined together. An artist in Colorado has re-created part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling on his Etch A Sketch. A classic toy, says John Brandt, manager of Toys International in Los Angeles, "is something where the child's imagination is the most important thing...