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...specimens. For Robyn Stacey, shooting the wonders of the Macleay Museum's natural history collections took its own kind of intrepidity. She had to climb and re-climb the three flights of stairs to the museum's public gallery; crisscross Sydney to poke through storerooms; mount ladders to fetch preserving jars from high shelves; lie on floors to photograph specimens too fragile to be moved more than a meter from their cases. The sumptuous result, Museum (Cambridge University Press), provides the armchair-dwelling naturalist with a lift, a key to the storerooms, and a magnifying lens...
Price a tiger pelt can fetch in China...
...Unless served a summons, however, Larios and Rodriguez prefer to respect barber-client privilege, especially with their bigger clients - the ones who have outgrown the chair, so to speak. Arnoldo Alem?n, the portly former president convicted on embezzlement charges, now sends a car and driver to fetch Rodr?guez to do a home haircut, for which the barber charges double, or $9. Miguel Obando y Bravo, who used to come into the shop when he was just Archbishop of Managua, started sending the car after the Pope named him cardinal...
...things look likely to get even better: At the end of 2007, the struggling AU mission will be merged into a 26,000-strong hybrid U.N. operation. Already, new houses are springing up close to the razor-wire fence of the AU headquarters, where simple four-bedroom houses can fetch $2,000 a month. Tajel al-Din Dissa, an economics lecturer at the university, is among those investing in property. He rents one house to an AU officer and is building a second, which he hopes will push his rental earnings above his university salary. But he has mixed feelings...
Percentage of the retail price that stolen jewels tend to fetch because of the risk of detection...