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Smaller parcels arrive in dozens of ways: in the holds of small boats, in the bags of merchant seamen, taped to tourists' flesh, dissolved and then impregnated in clothing or, as New York customs agents discovered early last year, secreted behind a framed reproduction of Da Vinci's Last Supper...
...example, if someone were to bring in a painting believed to be by Da Vinci, the Center's specialists would scratch off a sample of paint invisible to the naked eye. Workers then would examine the paint under a scanning electronic microscope in the astrophysics lab. ("It was bought for the moonrocks," Beale says, "but I don't think they use it much for that.") If the pigments and compounds used in the would-be Da Vinci do not match those from specimens that the master actually used, the painting is probably a fake...
Analysts and advertisers seem to agree that love ads are now an important part of the mating game. ''Your Aunt Susan isn't going to find anyone for you," complains Philadelphia Businesswoman Cari Lyn Vinci, who has met 25 men by using ads. Adds Edwin Roberts, manager of classifieds for New York magazine: "If you talk to people who go to singles bars, you just hear a lot of frustration...
...cottage industry is springing up around the ads. Author Foxman runs a classified love telephone line in Cleveland. Entrepreneur Vinci started a similar service in Philadelphia. Author Lynn Davis offers a three-hour workshop in New York City called "Personal Ads, Why Not?" Vi Rogers, editor of National Singles Register, a tabloid published in Southern California with many pages of personals, says the search for love, and not just sex, is producing the boom. "I never realized how many men wanted to get married in Southern California," she says. "Men and women today want the same thing: romance, love...
Leonardo da Vinci's Landscapes, Plants and Water Studies (Johnson Reprint Corp.; $4,600; after Dec. 31, $5,500) reproduces 70 sheets of drawings, unbound and printed recto and verso, from the hand and mind of genius. Whether he drew acorns, flowers, an oncoming thunderstorm or doodles, Leonardo worked magic. This project is every bit as magnificent as its price. The drawings come in a large portfolio box, accompanied by a 250-page volume of text and notes; the whole production is partly bound in royal blue Nigerian goatskin. It would be less expensive to jet to Britain...