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...fact, she earned pop-cultural icon status. There are a dozen books about her, and a half-dozen movies, including the 2006 biopic, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention a bunch of tribute songs, countless websites and, almost always, more than a thousand products for sale on eBay. For just $6.99 you could get a Bettie Page 'Don't Tread on Me' Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which "features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip." And who'll bid $19.99 for the Bettie Page Retro Cincher Corset Lot? The annotation reads...
...Chicago-based Female Health Company is hoping to change that. Its redesigned product is being reviewed by the FDA and, if approved, could be available for sale in the U.S. sometime next year. As a "Class 3 medical device," the female condom is held to the same rigorous FDA standards as pacemakers, heart valves and silicone breast implants, with clinical trials costing as much as $6 million. Male condoms, on the other hand, only need to pass breakage tests and are, therefore, much cheaper to produce. (See the 50 best inventions...
...Whitman days, eBay didn't have any customer service," says Lindsay of Sanford C. Bernstein. "If something went wrong, it was tough luck, buddy." Today if a buyer pays for the transaction through PayPal--a payment company owned by eBay that has seen tremendous growth--the sale is guaranteed for the full price...
Black Friday's long gone, but for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, everything - including a Senate seat - is still for sale. Or at least it was. Blagojevich, along with chief of staff John Harris, was arrested in Chicago on Dec. 9 on charges that included conspiring to commit wire fraud and soliciting bribes in exchange for the Illinois Senate seat - vacated by President-elect Barack Obama - that Blagojevich was obligated to fill. If convicted, Blagojevich, who turns 52 on Dec. 10, faces up to 30 years in prison. What a birthday...
Proceeds from the sale will allow Harvard to push back payments for outstanding debt and provide more cash to meet the demands of University budgets without selling the endowment’s other holdings at depressed prices...