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Leland's auctions tend to bring the buyer very close to the player: Michael Jordan's sneakers went for $1,320, Tom Seaver's chewed-up toothpick for $440 and Mike Tyson's mouthpiece for $880. A packet of prophylactics from the 1950s with Ted Williams' picture on it, though not game-used, still sold...
...stools, yellow molding, yellow, yellow, yellow. Hot Dog with mustard, relish, and onions and a can of Sprite. When I ordered my hot dog, the guy asked me if I wanted mustard, relish and onions. I said "Yes," so he put onions on the hot dog, gave me a packet of relish, and he told me where I could find the mustard. The clientele consisted of a couple scruffy-looking guys drinking coffee plus one middle-aged woman eating a big turkey sandwich which looked pretty good. I'm not sure. My hot dog was kind of dinky...
...trend we should celebrate. At the old Brigham's shop on Mass. Ave, you could get ice cream scoops in flavors like "chocolate" and "vanilla." And it all cost less than your average packet of bath beads...
...young and the weak are dying of starvation: a frail child is barely able to share a meager meal with his father at a feeding center; a desperately weak man stares at a bowl of water; another is huddled by the remains of a fire with a packet of rehydration salts. As earlier in Ethiopia and Somalia, this famine is in part the result of civil war. Initially the fighting pitted the Muslim government in Khartoum against Christian rebels in the south; now the rebels are also killing one another. No one knows how many are starving...
Heller's other specialties include wave-packet dynamics in molecular scattering and association and the explanation of classically chaotic systems, Kirby said...