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...auction lot of 21 Michael Jackson items, ranging from vintage posters to a shirt, sold for $205,000 during a Las Vegas event the day after his death. The same items fetched only $15,000 in a private sale about six years earlier, says Darren Julien, president and founder of Julien's Auctions, who hosted the event. Among the items was a heavily-beaded shirt the pop artist wore during his Victory tour. "We had estimated it would get $2,000 to $3,000, but we sold it for $54,000," he says. (See TIME's photos of the Jackson...
...vision," says Paul Alivisatos, who was Chu's deputy there. But some scientists bristled at Chu's demand for dramatic scientific breakthroughs - brand-new ways to store energy, sequester carbon or fuel cars - as opposed to incremental engineering improvements. "Chu likes flashy, sexy technological fixes that attract a lot of attention. He gets bored when they aren't nano-this or bio-that," says University of Texas engineering professor Tad Patzek, who left the Berkeley Lab after clashing with...
...Chinese don't seem to worry about that. At one point, Chu acknowledged that democracy makes change a lot tougher, although he hastened to add that he's a big fan of democracy. "We just have to do a better job communicating the facts so the electorate can educate themselves," he said. Soon he sounded like he was talking to himself again: "Let's be positive. The facts really do matter to the American people...
...help fund much needed work in roads, rail links, telecommunications, and even on its oil rigs. Libya's Soviet-era military equipment is also in bad need of an overhaul, and France, Britain and Russia are all vying for multi-billion-dollar defense contracts. "Libya can offer a lot of investment opportunities," Zainy said. "There is construction, there is trade." (Read: "French Defense Execs Woo Gaddafi...
...people would have had to pass through checkpoints to get into the capital. How could they have gone undetected when they were loaded with water tanks full of chemicals and projectiles? One likely reason: they were assembled in Baghdad itself. Another detail enhanced the inside-job theories: the parking lot across from the Foreign Ministry, where the largest blast occured, is off limits to trucks. But security has been so lax that, just the afternoon before the attack, ordinary vehicles were not being inspected for explosives. (See pictures of the August 2009 truck-bombings of Baghdad...