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Nearly every re-created house contains a similar souvenir shop. In addition to the T-shirts, the stores sell hats, bags, mugs, shot glasses and thimbles--any tacky souvenir, you name it and it's there stamped "QUEBEC" in cheesy letters. When my brother went to Quebec on a school trip, he bought my mother a set of cheap plastic measuring spoons shaped like frogs from stores. They've long since broken...
...would suggest that they had been posted, but that they've been removed. Someone comes by and they want a souvenir," said Frank J. Moore, Harvard's manager of support services in energy management. "I'm sure they've been done. It takes a while for the paperwork to go through...
...that their earthly garden is being turned upside down. The last orange grove on Orange Avenue was knocked down in 1977. A tourist's only glimpse of the crop that once supported Orlando's economy is likely to be the miniature orange trees "that really bear fruit" sold in souvenir shops. In the past 20 years at least four of the city's main thoroughfares have become cluttered with fast-food joints, gift shops, motels, hotels and gas stations that mount a neon assault ($2.99 FOR MICKEY MOUSE!) on passersby. On some strips, condominiums and steak houses have been...
Profiling can also help find new evidence. Sexual killers often take a souvenir or trophy from their victim, perhaps a piece of jewelry, which they keep to feed their fantasies or give to a girlfriend or mother. Some child molesters maintain extensive kiddie-pornography collections, including photographs and videotapes of themselves in sex acts with their victims. Says agent James Wright: "If you can find the porn collection, it nails down the conviction...
...20th century works will also help flesh out the Met's skeletal early- Modernist collection. The Annenberg paintings include a very fine Georges Braque studio interior from 1939, and At the Lapin Agile, Picasso's self- portrait as Harlequin at the bar of a Montmartre dive. This souvenir of lost bohemia cost Annenberg $40.7 million at auction...