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...Imagine Owning Your Own Town and Zip Code!" the eBay ad screams. "The starting bid will be $1,750,000. Enjoy eighty-three acres of lush, green hillsides, a roaring river, swimming holes, sweeping mountain views, warm sunshine and riverfront acreage. Property includes houses, cabins and commercial buildings with rental income...
...state where one of every 13 homes sold costs more than a $1 million, an offer to buy an entire town for less than double that price would seem to be irresistible. But if the recent history of Bridgeville, California, is any indication, zip code 95526 likely won't be an easy sell when bidding begins on April...
...appears to be in traditional dress until I look past the metallic python Chloé Silverado bag parked on the table in front of her and notice that her abaya has a zip front. "I have them made for me. This one's a bit sporty," she says, "and I'm wearing it over"?she unzips an inch and peers down her front?"a Top Shop T, Seven jeans and heels, of course. When I wear flats, I walk like a duck...
...wake of Tiananmen. Li had been a high school student in Beijing during the protests, too young to take part herself, but she knew what had happened. That knowledge was dangerous. "Imagine a zipper on your mouth," her mother told Li before she left for the army. "Zip it up tight." But Li would not be muzzled. Despite the risk, she told her comrades of the massacre, of the corpses she had seen piled high in a hospital, and of the government's hollow insistence that none of this had happened. "I couldn't help myself," Li says...
...miles. Indeed, at a top speed of more than 47,000 m.p.h., which it will achieve by playing off Jupiter's gravity in a 2007 flyby, New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft in history (it's no slouch even now: a mere nine hours after launch, it will zip past the Moon; it took Apollo astronauts three days to get that...