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...pair of Louis XV corner cabinets went for $608,920, and a folio cabinet fetched $655,760. But the most breathtaking buy was a garishly ornate Louis XV corner cabinet. The contenders were two agents working for anonymous buyers and Art Dealer Andrew Ciechanowieski of London's Heim Gallery. As the salon fell silent with tension, the three repeatedly raised the price in jumps of $117,000. Finally, Ciechanowieski, nodding his head, raised the bid to $1.7 million-more than three times the amount ever paid for a single piece of furniture in an auction. All told, the collection...
...investigation of the phenomenon, University of Iowa Psychiatrist Russell Noyes Jr. has made it easier for other researchers by translating a long-neglected 1892 report* by Swiss Geologist Albert Heim. Probably the best collection of sudden-death experiences available, the report details interviews that Heim had with some 30 survivors of Alpine falls after he himself nearly died in a similar accident. Psychiatrist Noyes also analyzed other accounts of 19th and 20th century near fatal accidents and published his conclusions in a recent issue of Psychiatry...
...marked by vivid, happy memories of the past. Noyes believes that this "life review" is an emotional defense against the thought of extinction; apparently deprived of his future, a dying person concentrates his vital energy on recapturing what was precious to him in the past. Describing his personal experience, Heim wrote: "I saw myself as a seven-year-old boy going to school, then in the fourth-grade classroom with my beloved teacher Weisz. I acted out my life as though I were on a stage upon which I looked down from the highest gallery in the theatre...My sisters...
...followed by what Noyes calls "a mystical state of consciousness." After her recovery, a nurse who nearly died from an allergic reaction to penicillin reported an experience of bliss and ecstasy in which she was idyllically absorbed in contemplating a mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music, and a feeling of peace and reconciliation. They...
...dash. as had been expected left Harvard pointless as Princeton's Heim Stevenson established a new Heptagonal mark of 6.0, and Army runners placed second and fourth...