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...Watch for models that had a limited production run, like the '65-'67 AC Shelby Cobra 427, which tend to be worth more. Convertibles also command higher prices. As the saying goes, "The price goes up if the top comes down...
...array of U.S. aircraft filled the skies near Gardez, from high-flying B-52 bombers to low-circling Predator drones. F-15E Strike Eagles bombed ground targets, and AC-130 gunships provided close air support. But it was the AH-64 Apache and the AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters that were most lethal, firing missiles and heavy machine guns to take out caves and enemy forces...
Since 1986, the most popular way for the recently unemployed to stay insured has been through COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act). The government-mandated program keeps any former employee's corporate health-insurance plan active for 18 months. Now the Internet enables comparison shopping for health insurance, and there are cheaper alternatives to COBRA. Websites like eHealthInsurance.com allow an evaluation of various health plans in any given ZIP code. Gary Lauer, eHealthInsurance's chief executive, says a family of four can usually find an online deal that's better than COBRA's average $600 per month premium, although prices...
...most unimaginative eater ever. She doesn't even like tomatoes," he says. So Bourdain, 45, the chef who wrote 2000's restaurant tell-all, Kitchen Confidential, got himself a TV deal and book contract to travel around the world eating lamb testicles, duck embryo and a still-beating cobra heart ("like an aggressive oyster," he says). For this interview, he escapes from his Upper West Side apartment to a signless Japanese restaurant in the basement of a midtown Manhattan office building. He orders sea urchin roe and clam abductor muscle, smokes nine Lark cigarettes, and points out what he says...
...served up insider's secrets, including why people should not order fish on Mondays. In A Cook's Tour he takes even less advisable gastroenterological risks as he searches the globe for exotic foods. In one episode of the show, Bourdain toasts the Bam!-meister with a glass of cobra blood: "Hey, Emeril, why don't you kick this up a notch?" But Eileen Opatut, senior V.P. of programming for the Food Network, doesn't worry about Bourdain's slagging her channel. "That has to do with a certain machismo that many people in the world of food have...