Dozens of Mr Hassan's neighbours too have discarded wheat, maize and vegetable crops for opium poppies, which not only gives them easy access to credit and protection from the Taliban, but also fetches more money.
When a user searches the Web using Google, RockMelt not only delivers the Google search results, but also fetches the pages associated with those results, so a user can preview those pages quickly and decide which to click to.
Vacant land is also fetching high prices -- from 1.1 acres on Long Island Sound, which sold for $1.6 million, to 105 acres in Bedford, which sold for $1.63 million.
Also fetching were a plump blonde in a lace baby-doll dress under a flannel work shirt; a hipster in a vintage candy-striper blouse; and a kitchen volunteer in a T-shirt stencilled with a portrait of Geronimo.
But she also fetches her own coffee, types her own memos and reads her own e-mails, using a regular keyboard -- not a Braille one -- and a computer that translates text into talk.
It may not be the bonanza of Super Bowl advertising – which funneled an estimated $220 million to CBS this year, according to analysts — but Oscar commercials also fetch high prices, and this year has proven quite lucrative.
Other vases also fetched well above their estimates.
The 190,000-square-foot Promenade also fetched a price of more than $20 million, Mr. Merin said.
Elsewhere other items related to The Godfather also fetched a hefty price.
A Second Folio and a Third also fetched twice the catalogue's estimates, at $281,000 and $556,000 respectively.
