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...unprecedented eight. The album question is tricky, simply because the record keeps selling, long past the point anyone expected it to: Epic Records sells more than a million copies a week worldwide; to date it has sold more than 30 million copies. The figures pyramid into a crazy crystal that throws off light from any angle. There are nine songs on the album; seven have been released as singles; all have hit the Top Ten, and two of them have reached No. 1. "I don't think the album's sales are finished," says Walter Yetnikoff, president of Epic...
What all this was was the twelfth annual National Inventors Conference, sponsored by the Patent and Trademark Office, the National Council of Patent Law Associations, and the Bureau of National Affairs. It was held in one of those futuristic hotels-the Marriott Crystal Gateway-and in the Patent and Trademark building. Seventy of the nation's inventors paid $75 apiece to attend workshops (Inventing in Today's World, Funding a New Idea) and to take part in an exposition of inventions. A touching sidelight was a tour of the patent offices...
...small agate bowl in the case broke into several pieces, Julia Murray, assistant curator for the Fogg Art Museum Oriental collection, said yesterday. In addition, a crystal vase was chipped and a jade blade nicked, she added...
...Denver-based Doctor Who Fan Club of America has 18,000 members, each of whom receives a liquid-crystal badge that changes colors with body heat. Says Club President Ron Katz, 39: "I get a lot of letters from school principals who say that kids are not studying, they're rubbing their Doctor Who badges...
...hundred collected stories by Colette make for a sumptuous display, rather like a table spread with the fruit and wine she celebrated in her books: "Late-ripening cherries, rosy peaches, thin-skinned Marseilles figs, misty hothouse grapes and champagne shuddering in carafes of heavy crystal...