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...national media wasted precious inches this week in its endless, dry and rather pointless coverage of the Super Tuesday primary elections. Blinded by its incomprehensible quest to champion the story with the fewest number of interesting angles, it overlooked a veritable news gem which broke early Monday morning at the California Yacht Club in Los Angeles. Instead of reading about how Al "the Bore" Gore and George W. "I-went-to-Yale-so-I-stink" Bush were probably going to capture instead their respective party nominations (duh), we should have found the famous French adventurer Remy Bricka adorning the front...
...canit all jet off to the Caribbean when we feel the need for a little sunshine but at least I can look like I did,i justifies one sophomore who frequents Erin Cleaners. And, for all those fearless sun-seekers, this hidden gem of artificial sunlight is also quite a bargaino$5 a pop for a single visit, or for the mere price of $29.95 one can purchase unlimited visits to the tanning salon for 30 days. Simply drop off that merino wool cardigan, and head under the lamps...
...Though the makers of Dream Phone failed to offer Brian any share of the royalties, he still views the experience as a gem of an opportunity, one with great potential for the forty-niners of Harvard today. He asserts, "There is definitely room for everyone at Harvard to play both Trivial Pursuit and Dream Phone." If you're up to the challenge, Brian, and Scott, can be reached...
Johann Gutenberg was born of well-to-do parents in the Archbishopric of Mainz, Germany. Details of his life, early as well as late, are sketchy, but he apparently trained as a goldsmith and/or gem cutter and then became a partner in a printing shop in Strasbourg...
...Recently a Maine antiques store put an old-fashioned calculator up for sale on eBay for $100. Within a few days the calculator-loving collectors of the Web had bid the price up to $6,500. The antiques sellers had had no idea that they were sitting on a gem. But the Web's information-driven economics helped find the right price...