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DETROIT — A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a quarter, officials say.

The boy was part of a school group from Holly that visited the museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley’s Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler’s “The Bay,” an abstract painting from 1963.

The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5 million.

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Personally, I think the gum may have been an improvement.

Imagine a TV remote control combined with beads. You can do much better than pressing buttons, switching channels in hope to find something interesting. Shape your habitual time-spending in unusual form.

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The cars and trucks driven by those in the Top 10 of the 2005 Forbes list was, in short, shocking. You won’t find a Bugatti, Ferrari or BMW driven by these billionaires. But you will find a Lincoln, a Mazda, even a Dodge and Ford. It seems that for the super-rich, a vehicle is seen not as a status symbol, but as a means to an end in which to get from point A to point B.

I find that last sentence pretty interesting. It appears that those that don’t have money want a car that statuses wealth, but those that do have money just really don’t care.

1. William Gates III
2. Warren Buffett

3. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
4. Ingvar Kamprad

5. Paul Allen
6. Lawrence Ellison
7. Jim Walton
8. Alice Walton

9. Michael Dell

10. Steven Ballmer

ANDERSON, S.C. — An Anderson man is dead after being strangled with a vacuum cleaner hose, and his common-law wife is charged with his murder.

Deputies said Pressley beat and strangled Powers with vacuum cleaner accessories.

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