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...Codex and his people saved the contest, and our family, from disaster. But there was a quid...
...sloth takes another slug of Jolt, stifles a belch and says, ``I am Codex, the Crypto-Anarchist Sloth...
...Your equipment is fine,'' Codex says. ``I'm encrypting your back channel. To the cable company, it looks like noise. As you fig ured out, that number is your personal encryption key. No government or corporation on earth can eavesdrop...
...record $30.8 million was paid today for a 72-page Leonardo da Vinci manual by an anonymousauctionbidder today, more than double the amount the book was expected to fetch. The 485-year-old codex contains scientific diagrams on astronomy, geography, geology and hydraulics, including advice on flood control. The work -- sold by Christie's America to a bidder phoning it in -- was acquired for $5.6 million by oil tycoon Armand Hammer in 1980.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...rare scientific manual by the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci has been placed on the auction block by its owner, the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The 72-page codex contains more than 300 drawings representing the artist-scholar's revolutionary ideas on astronomy and mechanics. The manuscript was purchased, amid complaints from Britain, in 1980 for $5.13 million from an English earl, and is expected to fetch an even more astronomical price this time around...