The late Elizabeth Taylor’s lavish jewelry collection, valued at some $30 million, is coming to auction. Included are some of the world’s most exquisite jewels, such as a 33-carat diamond ring given to Taylor by Richard Burton and reportedly worth up to $3.5 million.
Oh, sure: It’s easy to collect a lot of bling when you get married eight times.
Powering down: We’re using more electronic gadgets than ever, and yet America’s electricity consumption is expected to decrease over the coming years — thanks in part to the phase-out of Edison’s light bulb in favor of those corkscrew CFLs that everyone hates.
So remember, green is the color of the money you’ll save on your PUD bill — and also of the sickly light put out by CFLs.
America’s lunchroom: One-third of the nation’s office workers eat their lunches at their desks, a survey says.
And about one-third of those folks might lose their lunches if they took a close look at all that stuff that’s fallen into their keyboards over the years.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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