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...owner, the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The 72-page codex contains more than 300 drawings representing the artist-scholar's revolutionary ideas on astronomy and mechanics. The manuscript was purchased, amid complaints from Britain, in 1980 for $5.13 million from an English earl, and is expected to fetch an even more astronomical price this time around...
...straight-A student, 17-year-old Luke O'Neil gets a 10% discount at his high school store in Kingston, Massachusetts, and free admission to all class dances and athletic events. This summer his marks will fetch him discounts and freebies at local pizza parlors and candy stores...
...human intruders. More than 6,000 Indians live inside the 250-sq.-mi. refuge. And crowding the borders are 250 villages teeming with tens of thousands more people who covet not only the animals that the cats need for food but also the tigers. Their pelts and body parts fetch princely prices on the black market. Were it not for the 250 guards on patrol to protect Nagarahole's tigers, none of them would survive for long...
...seen the best parts of the movie if you've seen the preview. They are all scenes of "seven well-trained, heavily armed men" like the grocery store (where they radio to each other for price checks on produce) or the golf course (where Mrs. Carlisle orders Doug to fetch her ball). In several scenes Doug and Tess engage in ridiculously immature exchanges--in which Doug threatens to leave, and Tess tells him to go, but everyone knows that she doesn't really want him to. Phone calls from a President with a Clinton-esque Southern accent keep Doug...
...welcomed down on the farm. Idaho dairyman Kurt Alberti, for instance, isn't so sure he wants to clone the offspring of prizewinning cows like his Twinkie, even though she was the American Jersey Cattle Club's top milk producer last year and her calves fetch handsome prices on the auction block. Using cloning to create large numbers of identical calves runs counter to what breeders strive to do. Alberti wants to create cows even better than Twinkie, and the only way to do that is by constantly reshuffling the genetic deck with a fresh supply of genes. Indeed, rather...