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...according to the government human rights ombudsman's office. One U.S. couple spent almost two years and $50,000 to adopt their Guatemalan daughter, Ella, only to find out later that her biological mother "was essentially a baby factory" who had sold many of her eight children to a dealer, says the adoptive father. "It felt almost dirty, like we were involved in a child brokering scheme...
...their professors. Most customers buy fossils for others, as gifts or bribes. After an initial rush, shopkeepers say, demand has leveled out, although their stores remain open. "It's normal to go a month or two without a sale, because there are so many other shops," says one dealer. But she didn't seem worried, explaining that selling just the occasional $300 petrified tree stump or $600 marine lizard will keep her business afloat...
Axel Vervoordt: Timeless Interiors (Flammarion) Journalist and art historian Armelle Baron showcases the work of famed Belgian antique dealer Axel Vervoordt through stunning interiors he created for 23 private homes...
...drawings, which historians say may be the most important Galileo find in more than a century, are in a specimen of Galileo's volume that had long been secreted away in the collection of an anonymous South American. At the request of New York-based rare-books dealer Richard Lan, who now owns it, Bredekamp and his associates examined the drawings over the course of two years, dating paper and ink and comparing brushstrokes with other known Galileo sketches. Bredekamp believes that Galileo, who was overseeing the printing of Sidereus Nuncius, drew the moons on the pages of a proof...
...network of older guys, a dialogue and communication is there now." He says he has been negotiating with the gangs in Wanganui, and claims to exercise a benign influence on gang affairs, despite having once been told, he claims, that police thought he was the largest amphetamines dealer in New Zealand. "I was so hurt by that," he says, "not just me, but for my family and my larger family. But I can honestly tell you that crime has dropped 80% in Hastings since I became president...