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...JASPER, Texas: Anyone who doubts the gruesome nature of the killing police say took place here earlier this week need only look at the crime scene. In bright fluorescent paint, police have marked the separate locations in which parts of James Byrd's mutilated body were found. "Dentures," reads one. "Head," says another...
...this mood shift is a growing collection of tragedies, such as the death last August of the 10-day-old daughter of Army Sergeant Julius Baker and his wife Gail; the baby was left in the sweltering family car for several hours while Gail played video poker in Jasper County...
...from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Colorado Springs. That stretch of land at the foothills of the Rockies is aswarm with housing and commercial development; three counties on the Front Range are among the Census Bureau's 10 fastest growing. "We're talking about critical habitat that's almost gone," says Jasper Carlton, director of the Biodiversity Legal Foundation. "We shouldn't be building in these areas anyway. Protecting the mouse saves the environment...
...news, and even then it may not work. The early results of the fall auction season--which began last week and will continue through this week--confirm this: one big bang, and not much else. The bang was afforded by the collection of works by Picasso (plus some by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other American artists) put together over 50 years, on a fairly modest budget, by Victor and Sally Ganz. It was one of the more famous American private collections, and it contained some works--especially the Picassos--of very high quality...
...when squillionaires competed for favored artworks like mountain rams in rut clashing horns over a crag or a mate, and when new money would pay just about anything for just about anything? Obviously not. For instance, at the Ganz sale someone paid $7.9 million for a good Jasper Johns--a far cry from the $17 million paid for a comparable picture at Sotheby's nine years...