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Morning came on the first day of my new wireless life, and I couldn't wait to get started. No more walking barefoot to the edge of the driveway to fetch a rain-soaked newspaper--and getting an acorn or two wedged between my toes. Instead I jumped onto the Web, touched base with time.com scanned a few hot blogs, checked out the competition and clicked to espn.com for box scores. All without missing a beat or a drop of breakfast cereal. What I did miss, however, was the screaming of an infant in her high chair and the smoke...
...underfunded local cultural-relics bureau simply placed wooden planks across the hole and tossed in some dirt. Before long, other gangs pilfered at least 200 treasures, mostly ceramic statues, from the site. Among the loveliest of these pieces was a series of delicately painted female figurines, which could fetch at least $10,000 in the Xi'an underground market and up to $80,000 in London or New York City. Though just as rare, other figurines from Empress Dou's tomb were worth only $6,000 apiece because of their unprepossessing color, a charcoal gray unique to some ceramics...
...Amount one weapon can fetch on the black market...
...Spare Parts: Air France plans to auction pieces of Concorde in Paris in November. The jet's distinctive nose cone is expected to fetch $11,600- $17,400; two engines, a pilot seat and flight manuals are also up for grabs...
...make sure incoming planes were theirs, not Germany's. Today new RFID applications are fueling a quiet business revolution that promises to speed up inventory and payment systems--and change our lives. Soon the family refrigerator may read the RFID tags of its contents, then alert you to fetch another carton of milk, toss an out-of-date product or cut back on cholesterol consumption. In Italy an appliance maker has designed a washer that can read RFID-tagged garments and process them accordingly. "It's going to be huge for industry," predicts futurist Paul Saffo. "RFID will start...