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...rare scientific manual by the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci has been placed on the auction block by its 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...
...meet--which is considered to be the highlight of the winter season--were sophomores Darin Shearer, who won the 1,000-meter run in 2:23.92; Shayne Mauricette, who won the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.34; and senior Dave Anderson, who won the 35-pound hammer throw with a toss of 18.86 meters...
...When you have a hammer, everything starts tolook like a nail," adds Steven W. Wardell '94-'95,who says he saves $15 a month on his phone bill bysending e-mail to his girlfriend in Texas. "Whenyou have e-mail, you start using it for everythingyou...
...bystander. She is too close to North Korea. You have to get the Chinese on board, and they will not come on board without settling a whole host of other issues so that they become part of the world management team for peace, stability, progress. One day you hammer them for human rights, the second day for the export of prison-produced goods. The third day for something else, and the fourth day you tell them: We are friends, so help me settle this...
Supposedly unbreakable locks are no defense for cyclists: thieves use a small metal pipe to break the Kryptonite U-Lock. Robbers also spray locks with Frion to freeze the metal and then smash them with a hammer...