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Jan 14 2009 12:50am EDT

Extra Credit, Tuesday Edition

Wine Auctions Become a Buyer’s Market: Hope springs eternal. "The one thing that the world has proven to us is that when things go down, they only go up higher than ever before."

Student auctions off virginity for offers of more than £2.5 million: Doesn't pass the smell test. I'm sure the offers are there, but I'm much less sure she'll actually get that kind of cash in reality.

And finally, fear without the greed on Wall Street, and a quite wonderful use of the word "literally":

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