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...semiconductor and computer business, is investing that healthy sum to create an "artificial life" program for personal computers. The flashy new technology will one day let real-world humans breed E-world "creatures" that will help out with mundane computer tasks. Possible examples include byte-based Rottweilers that will fetch your electronic newspaper and virtual vultures that can nibble away at electronic "trash...
...does Weiner speak for us? Harvard has as much right as any other corporation to sell its holdings for what they fetch--above or below market value. Moreover, the University isn't even selling. Harvard intends to rent the apartments to students and faculty who surely deserve to live in Cambridge as much as the current residents...
When the sea-cucumber season began in October 1994, things quickly got out of hand. Dozens of fishing boats appeared, drawn by the high price the sluglike creatures fetch in Asia. According to Jack Grove, a Florida-based naturalist and photographer and founder of the nonprofit group Conservation Network International, many fishermen bought their registrations on the black market. By December, park officials estimated, as many as 7 million sea cucumbers had been harvested, far more than the authorized limit of 550,000. There are reports that boats coming to collect the sea cucumbers arrive with prostitutes and drugs from...
...abilities; they're also gifted visual artists. Indeed, they must be gifted, because their handiwork isn't cheap. Gere's work, currently on display in a Manhattan art gallery, sells for $12,500 a portfolio (all proceeds to charity), and some of the late Davis' pieces are expected to fetch up to $100,000 when they go on sale in Chicago in November. An original Byrne from New York City's CristineRose Gallery will set connoisseurs back $800 to $8,500, while photocopies of Bennett's efforts recently fetched $1,000 at a charity auction. "Look, I just paint," says...
Even the swarming of NATO planes over the city the following day was not enough to convince desperate residents that rescue was at hand. The streets were empty; state radio urged people to stay home to avoid retaliatory shelling by the Serbs. The few who ventured out to fetch water or buy food stared at the sky and debated the latest events. "This is the beginning of the end of the war," said Zaim Alic, 48. But his friend Vahida Fazlagic, 64, interrupted him bitterly. She was driven from her home in Grbavica, a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo...