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More sophisticated buyers cultivate contacts with a small community of international brokers, mostly Germans and Americans, who work out of Switzerland. These brokers have sanitized their operations so thoroughly that they never actually meet the seller. According to participants in the trade, couriers deliver the seller's metals and the buyer's cash to one of the Swiss banks specializing in the metals trade. There the metals are tested by an independent laboratory for atomic count and purity. If the metals are certified, the bankers hand them over to the buyer and deposit the cash in the seller's numbered...
...Celestine Prophecy, a tale of a Peruvian manuscript that unfolds the secrets of life, sold 100,000 copies in a self-published paperback. Now the Warner Books hard cover has sold an additional 450,000 in six weeks and just reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list...
...that premieres on Masterpiece Theatre this Sunday. The mini-series, which cost some $10 million to make, was a recent critical and popular success in Britain, leading to lectures and even debates on the novel. As a result of the show, a Penguin paperback of the novel topped best-seller lists for five weeks, and is still doing well. The town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, where exteriors were filmed, is preparing for a summertime influx of tourists...
Switching to Capitol Records and teaming with ace producer Don Was, Raitt finally found the up. Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw (1991) made her a best seller without selling her out. "Here I am, not having sought it, but somehow getting it," she says. "But the idea of playing the game of being 'hot' is offensive to me." The fact is, Raitt loves the road; hot or cold, she'll be happy as long as she's working. "When the lights go down, it is the same gig as 15 years ago. I have the coolest...
...beautiful tiger skin may bring its seller as much as $15,000, but the bones and other body parts generate even more money, and they are much easier to smuggle and peddle. As incomes rise in Asia, people can afford to pay tens or hundreds of dollars for a dose of tiger-based medicine. And as the destruction of tigers decreases supply, the price of their parts rises further, creating ever greater incentives for poachers to kill the remaining animals...