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...NOSE? With nearly 200 million of the coins in circulation four weeks after launch, the U.S. Mint's new Sacagawea Golden Dollar, top, is right on the money. Or is it? The Lewis and Clark Shoshone guide was given an "Ally McBeal nose job" by the Treasury after officials saw the artist's original design, complains the president of the Professional Numismatists Guild. Not so, says the Mint. Any differences (an earlier version of the coin is at right) are the result of mass-production limitations. Heads! Your call...
...expect to," he says. "It's not something I'm going to try to achieve either." Instead, he has spent his post-Titanic life avoiding interviews. "I feel so uncomfortable doing publicity," he says, and then proves it by spending the rest of the evening chewing on mint Stim-u-dent toothpicks, biting his nails, cracking his knuckles and loudly sucking in wallops of air through his teeth and generally becoming a human beat box. "A long-term career has a lot to do with people not understanding who you are. There are always going to be new facets...
Sighing, I shut down my computer and trudged through the graying slush to the Coop. To my surprise, the lines were short and the employees were relatively friendly. My books were easy to find even if somewhat on the pricey side. I even found two used Sociology books in mint condition, with minimal margin scribbles and highlighted passages. I thought about my wasted two hours and almost slapped myself for being so easily manipulated by a free slice of Tommy's pizza...
...political distinctions are mirrored by longstanding cultural traditions--family, history and home. For the most part, the South disapproves of Northerners' fast-paced lifestyles, harsh winter weather and abrupt manner. And in turn, many Northerners stereotype residents of the South, lumping them into one mint julep-sippin', tobacco-spittin', slow-talkin' conservative evangelist...
VENTURE OUT Sick of reading about venture capitalists making a mint by investing in dotcoms before they go public? Well, thanks to a newfangled mutual fund announced last week, you can plant seed capital. To be eligible for the fund, which VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson will roll out next year with meVC.com investors must earn $50,000, have $50,000 in the bank and plunk down at least $5,000. Just remember: most venture-capital bets are losers. Yours could...