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...dollar coin was designed to replace the ill-fated Susan B. Anthony coin, which has been a thorn in the side of the U. S. Mint since it started producing the coin...
Finally, those wild and crazy scientists at IBM have created the Microdrive ($499, available this fall), a 1-GB hard drive squeezed down to the size of a quarter. It weighs less than an ounce--you could almost mistake it for an after-dinner mint. Big whoop, you say? Slot one of these babies into an MP3 player, and you've got storage space for about 20 hours' worth of music. The Backstreet Boys never sounded so good...
...Estimated value of a coin found last week with a George Washington-quarter front and a Sacagawea-dollar back, the first mistake of its kind in the U.S. Mint's 208-year history...
...over Darwin's buttercreams one afternoon. We broke off tiny pieces together, licked around the edges of the edges to scoop up the filling with the points of our tongues. The doughy chocolate cookies (almost very thin brownies) sandwich four major types of buttercream: raspberry, mocha, peanut butter and mint. Thick as icing, this cookie filling makes Oreo cream taste like Olestra. Since then, I've learned that the cookies come chilled but are better a little warm. They last longer that way; you can break off smaller bits...
...coins feel so good--and fill such a giant need in our world of $1 vending machines--why has the Treasury spent $45 million advertising them? Why is the U.S. Mint distributing 5,000 of them in cereal boxes as a marketing gimmick? Because even in money, there is no such thing as a sure thing. How we feel about what we carry in our pockets says an awful lot about what we carry in our hearts and our minds. Last year a coalition of 11 European countries rolled out a brand-new currency called the euro. And though euro...