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Philadelphia Inquirer - Tiffany lamps, characterized by dazzling mosaic shades of vividly colored glass, have become widely admired and sought after - and extremely valuable - since Louis Comfort Tiffany stopped making them about 75 years ago. Their stunning patterns and ...

Chicago Tribune - As a University of Iowa business major, nothing intrigued Kevin Kotecki more than his finance classes. "I liked figuring out the net present values and internal rates of return for projects," said Kotecki. His love of finance continued until his ...

Xinhua News Agency - KUNMING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- China will hold its first rural culture and art festival in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. The festival, scheduled for November 18 to 22 at the Fubao village, near the Dianchi Lake, includes folk ...

CBS News - As Communist troops overran the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in 1975, U.S. Marines coordinated the final evacuation of embassy personnel. Revisit the final chapter of America's struggle in a decade-long war through pictures, maps, video and ...

Forbes - We have an interest in putting improvements into our home," said Darlene, who teaches art at a university. The couple had already visited several of the houses and "we're learning a lot," she said. Lori Johnson, of Lakewood, Colo., said the ...

New York Post - Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence," Art Brewer and C.R. Stecyk III reveal an unpublished interview with Spreckels. "I suppose I was the epitome of that whole Rolling Stones type of philosophy, Do as much as you can now because you may be dead ...

MSN MoneyCentral - The N8300A is based on an architecture that integrates Agilent's state-of-the-art Vector Signal Analysis and Vector Signal Generator hardware, and features an easy-to-use front panel graphical user interface and SCPI ...

San Francisco Gate - Often it's art by mistake, business on purpose. Armed with that understanding, we will periodically attempt to fix what's broken. And there's no better place to start than at the zenith of television: HBO. The worry here is that HBO doesn't know, or ...

Seattle Times - This image was taken circa 1900-1910. It's a gelatin silver print by an unknown photographer. "The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson" Daily through Dec. 31 (closed Dec. 25), National Gallery of Art ...

Seattle Times - The "Mona Lisa" as it appears at the Louvre in Paris, with multiple layers of yellow varnish added through the centuries for its protection SAN FRANCISCO -- For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its ...