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...seems this particular letter was indeed still available, and now its price was $9,500. Bear in mind that this was not a letter from Marilyn Monroe, merely addressed to her (611 N. Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills), and that if it was still available, that meant nobody, apparently, had wanted...
...MICHAEL WHITE: CRESCENT CITY SERENADE (Antilles). The irrepressible clarinetist and musicologist leads a new generation of New Orleans players through a lively exploration of their roots -- and proves once again that rumors of the death of traditional jazz have been greatly exaggerated...
...siege, with 18 million visitors pouring in every year. In the Lake District the National Trust has spent more than $2 million repairing erosion of public footpaths. Residents of Bath have trouble reaching their shops on summer Saturdays because of tourists descending on the town to see the Royal Crescent and the Roman baths. In North Devon 370,000 visitors a year overwhelm the picturesque harbor of Clovelly (pop. 400). Sometimes they even wander into private homes...
...gouging out a perfectly rounded bite from the upper edge of the sun. Moving at 10,000 km/h (6,000 m.p.h.) -- but as slowly as a distant airplane to the human eye -- the shadow crept down the face of the sun. Soon it obscured all but a thin lower crescent that gleamed against the darkening sky like the Cheshire Cat's smile. Next the corners of the smile vanished, leaving a single dazzling gem of brilliance at the bottom of a circle of light -- the so-called diamond-ring effect. At 7:28, the solitaire blinked...
Both Pinatubo and Unzen lie along the infamous Ring of Fire, a crescent of volcanic activity that runs around the rim of the Pacific Ocean through the edges of Asia, North America and South America. Washington's Mount St. Helens, which exploded spectacularly in 1980, is part of the ring. It contains three- quarters of the earth's 540 historically active volcanoes. Since such mountains are erupting in one place or another almost all the time, it is merely a coincidence that Pinatubo and Unzen are exploding simultaneously...