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...model--you order online, and a professional shopper (O.K., a teenager with a produce chart) picks out the goods at your nearest supermarket, as opposed to a dedicated warehouse. Then you either get same-day delivery for a fee (in urban areas, where it makes financial sense) or go fetch it (in rural areas, where it doesn...
...WORTH Turns out those tanking tech stocks sometimes are worth the paper they're printed on. On websites like eBay and Scripophily.com there's a lively market for original stock certificates--collectibles that can fetch more than the stock's share value
...followed in parks outside the U.S. In Cuba, the source for many of the dolphins that end up in Caribbean aquariums, a fisherman can earn more than a year's income by selling a wild dolphin on the black market for about $800. Once trained, that same dolphin can fetch $1,500 a day at a Caribbean park. Several cases have been reported of dolphins suffering from stress, chlorine toxicity or an overdose of human affection. "Dolphins don't just drop out of the sky and end up in tanks," says Gwen McKenna, an activist in Ontario, Canada, who seeks...
OVERRATED Canadian ice wines As dessert wines go, these imports are good but hardly worth the buzz--or the $80 a bottle some fetch. Besides, how difficult can it be to find frozen grapes in Canada...
...EM.TV bought the late Jim Henson's Muppet empire as part of a whopping $680 million deal, mainly to take advantage of the brand. Now, as EM.TV attempts to rid itself of debt, Kermit and Miss Piggy could be sold again - though some analysts say the Henson stable may fetch less than half EM.TV's original outlay...