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...sales. Botero came out at No. 5, behind artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg but ahead of Dutch painter Karel Appel and Britain's David Hockney. The editors estimated that Botero's paintings and sculptures had sold over the years for more than $57 million. Although a big chunk of those profits went to collectors, millions have been made by the artist himself. Now 73, Botero says he's lost track of how much he's created: "I've painted every day of my life since I was 17," he says, sitting in his Paris studio one recent morning...
...much as slaughter, and worse. The Dayaks, rumored to possess black magic that renders them impervious to bullets, have massacred entire Madurese villages, dismembering their victims and eating them. In the town of Sambas, he finds Dayaks cooking human thighs over a fire. One man offers him a chunk of human meat?"gray, fibrous"?impaled on a wooden stick like a kebab. Lloyd Parry refuses, but he can't stop himself from asking the essential question. The answer is predictably gruesome: it's delicious, they say. Like chicken...
...Membership Worth It? The accession talks between European Union officials and Turkish negotiators have created more tension than accord [May 23]. While it is understandable that Turkey would want to join the E.U. for the economic benefits, it seems obvious that the country may have to sacrifice a big chunk of its unique national identity. In this classic East-meets-West scenario, a power struggle has ensued, with the E.U. imposing Western values on one side and Turkey desperately trying to retain its national culture on the other. One has to question the conventional wisdom that joining the E.U. will...
...sizable chunk of Miami's condo buyers--as much as 70%, estimates real estate analyst Lewis Goodkin--is made up of investors itching to flip condos like scalpers wanting to unload Orange Bowl tickets. And the story is similar in other highly developed metro areas. The biggest-paying bets in Las Vegas are being laid on the condos and hotel condos (essentially, hotel suites that you can buy) going up on the Strip. On Valentine's Day morning, Bruce Hiatt, a broker and co-owner of Luxury Realty Group, showed up at the Strip's Four Seasons Hotel with...
...party in late May on the tiny, remote Shetland island of Unst, Britain's northernmost inhabited chunk of rock, was a real gas - literally. Islanders bopped to an enthusiastic set of '50s and '60s favorites performed by the Bonxies, perhaps the only rock band powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The electricity that amplified their guitars and keyboard came from a hybrid wind-into-hydrogen system that is part of the world's first community-owned hydrogen production plant, built on this island of 700 inhabitants. "Despite all the hype around the hydrogen economy, there appeared to be very little...