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Cases like these underline the fact that art authentication is a high-stakes game. Da Vinci's portrait has been renamed La Bella Principessa, and its estimated value has been adjusted to about $160 million - a price tag that could result in an unimaginable profit for Peter Silverman, the painting's owner, who acquired it for about...
...Trade is the big wild card. Canada is riding a wave of replenishment by U.S. automakers and manufacturers, whose inventories hit record lows earlier this year as a result of restructuring and a downward spiral in consumer spending. But it's unclear how long that can sustain a recovery north of the 49th parallel. "If the Canadian dollar stays where it is, the job numbers will go the other way [i.e., worsen]," says Jean-Michel Laurin, vice president of global business policy for Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME), the country's largest trade and industry association...
...come from? Well, Fred Schoch, executive director for the Head Of The Charles, decided that he wanted to bring together the international rowing medalists from the Beijing Olympics, according to HOCR international liaison Bradway Widing, who lingered outside Bartley's to ensure that the rowers' lunch proceeded smoothly. The result: The Great Eight...
...geared toward the management of acute episodes instead of the appropriate preventive measures you see in other countries," says Dr. John Rock, dean of Wertheim College. "Because of the lack of family doctors, we're not dealing with obesity; we're dealing with the expensive diabetes hospitalizations that result from the obesity." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
What sets the war-games snub apart from other recent disputes is that for the first time, military relations between the two countries have taken a hit. This is a result of the Turkish government's having increased its control over the country's powerful generals in a bitter - and ongoing - seven-year power struggle. "Until very recently, it was the upper echelons of the Turkish military who determined the scope and pace of the strategic relationship between Israel and Turkey," Ayturk says. "What we are witnessing is the chief of staff allowing, willy-nilly, Erdogan to take the initiative...