In a photo gallery showing the famous persons who contracted HIV/AIDS, only Magic Johnson, former basketball player of Los Angeles Lakers, is still alive. Others including tennis great Arthur Ashe (the only African-American player ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, or Australian Open), Hollywood actor Robert Reed, model Gia Marie Carangi, rock superstar and frontman of uber band Queen Freddy Mercury, all died.
Giant Palaia Truffle Bid by Stanley Ho at Record Price US $330,000
Jubilant Cristiano Savini holding his Palaia truffle (picture by AP)
Cristiano Savini, an Italian truffle hunter and trader, and his father Luciano under help of their dog Rocco last week found an usually giant truffle in Palaia, a town about 40 kilometers from Pisa. At the annual International Tuscan Truffle Auction held simultaneously in Macau, London and Florence on December 1, Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho made the winning bid for the 3.3 pound (1.5 kg) at a record price US$330,000, outbidding British artist Damien Hirst and Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi.
The Palaia truffle's price bested the previous record for a truffle of $212,000, and might soon rewrite a Guinness World Records which currently lists a 2.86 pound white truffle found in Croatia in 1999 as the biggest.
Truffle [wiki], dubbed as "the diamond of the kitchen" is highly valued fungus which has a smell similar to deep-fried sunflower seeds or walnuts and is believed having aphrodisiacal powers. Source: AP Tags:
UEFA Euro 2008 Soccer Finals Draw
16 National Coaches for Euro 2008 (via)
In a ceremony held in Lucerne of Switzerland December 2, the final 16 Euro 2008 teams have been drawn into the four groups as shown below:
Group A: Turkey, Portugal, Switzerland and Czech
Group B: Croatia, Austria, Germany, and Poland
Group C: France, Netherlands, Italy and Romania
Group D: Sweden, Russia, Greece, and Spain
Have to say Group C is the most difficult first-round group for next year's European Championship.
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