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Rubens Art Expected to Sell for $8-12 million
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens is creating big buzz among art collectors. It’s making a U.S. debut and will auction in London on December 6th. Titled “Two Studies of a Young Man”, it...
Rostropovich’s Art Collection Back in Russia
A collection of Russina art, collected over 30 years is returning to its motherland. Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov purchased the great cellist’s collection in a private deal with Sotheby’s auction house. Full article great...
Time To Fix Air Travel
U.S. air travel is a miserable experience–bad service, long lines, grumpy flight crews and groping security agents. It’s an endurance test, an endless stream of delays and discomforts with little resolution in sight. Full...
Can’t Sleep? Turn Off Your Cellphone!
A good night’s sleep is becoming ever more elusive for the average American — and it’s a problem that plagues us at all ages, from infancy to adulthood. Two studies illuminate the reasons why...
Luxe For Less – Scotch
Ask any scotch drinker to name the smokiest whisky on the market, and “Ardbeg’s 1974 vintage” is sure to trickle off his tongue. Smokey, sure. And at $20,000, among the priciest. Full article
Ultra Rich Super Yachts
For those sea-bound adventurers who plan to drop anchor at all the hot spots from St. Tropez to Sardinia, chartered yachts are your only the transportation of choice. Take a look at the best....
Microsoft Gives a 3D Look at Space Shuttle
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to give people a 3D photographic look at the space shuttle Endeavour before its launch this week, in a public-private partnership that could lead to more use of...
Microsoft Conquers China
Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500) chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment...
Steve Wynn Makes Las Vegas Work
Your first reaction is to stifle a giggle, as you would listening to a little kid get really serious about his ideas for inventions. I’m going to build a giant dancing water fountain in...
The Black Sites: C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program
In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General. At the time, Gonzales’s role in the controversial dismissal...
