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...people will also buy more mundane relics such as autograph books, railroad timetables or sets of love letters. Why? They do so for many reasons, say experts, not the least of which is living history. "People are intrigued by the past," says Jaben Broach, owner of CollecTons, an eBay drop-off shop in Boulder, Colo. "And often letters, diaries or ledgers reveal a time and place much better than any history book." Professional auctioneer G.G. (Gwen Glass) Carbone, author of How to Make a Fortune with Other People's Junk, sold four Civil War diaries--not written by anyone famous...
...helicopters hovering over New Orleans and bringing the stranded to dry land . He's sifting through conflicting information on where to go to help the most needy, or where to take them once they're saved. Tarchick would later find out that Lakefront was never designed to be a drop-off point in the first place and just evolved into one with out the necessary support. ?Who's running things? Nobody as far as I can tell. I wish I knew...
Here I am, two decades out of high school, and I'm still worrying about being popular. What if none of the other moms talk to me during drop-off? Or ask me on any play dates? Suppose the PTA president asks me to spearhead the wrapping-paper fund-raising drive and, pleading work pressure, I turn her down, and she goes into gossip overdrive? Those Mean Girls we have heard so much about can grow into Mean Moms, you know...
...Today faces a critical test on Aug. 26, when the price rises from 35¢ to 50¢. The last increase, from 25¢ last August, resulted in a temporary drop-off of about 100,000 buyers. Another late-summer decline is expected, and the briskness of both the circulation's recovery and its growth above 1.3 million will determine whether USA Today will survive...
...study also found that the greatest drop-off in female participation in physics occurs between the end of high school—where half of physics students are female—and college, where less than one quarter of undergraduate physics degrees go to women...