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...that fell off a train and worse. "Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," her mother asks her hungry kids, with glittery-eyed logic, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?" Finally they fetch up in a tiny, tilting, unplumbed house in the Appalachians. "'It's good we raised you young 'uns to be tough,' Dad says. 'Because this is not a house for the faint of heart...
...seems no relic associated with ELVIS PRESLEY is too trivial to fetch a bundle. A North Carolina man last week collected $455 by auctioning three tablespoons of water he claims once occupied a cup from which Elvis drank while performing. Wade Jones says that after an Elvis concert he attended in 1977, he was given the cup by a security guard. For decades he preserved the liquid in a sealed glass vial, but after seeing a grilled cheese sandwich ostensibly bearing an image of the Virgin Mary garner $28,000 on eBay, he decided to part with the holy Elvis...
...FETCH "So cool," to the cool high school crowd in the movie Mean Girls...
...continuing to tweak the production method at its headquarters in Nixa, Mo., while seeking investment for a full-scale factory. Emery has already demonstrated several applications for the fiber, and the math should work in his favor: a pound of raw feathers is worth about 2¢, but could fetch roughly $1 as processed fiber. "I strongly believe," Emery says, "that in a very short period of time, processed poultry feathers will be worth more per pound than poultry meat." Then again, the technology is still in its infancy, and feather fiber could wind up as the next frozen-milk concentrate...
...morning as we leave his home, arriving four hours later in a luxuriant green valley strewn with pink and violet wildflowers. From here his family scours the uplands. The locals have never rated matsutake highly (they call them "dirt-termite mushrooms") and still can't believe the prices they fetch. "Before the Japanese came, there were so many songrong, we would use baskets to gather them," Sui-nong recalls. "We'd put them in soup or sell them at the market for three yuan [35?] a kilo." Today, top-quality matsutake earn pickers 150 yuan ($18) each, skyrocketing...