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2013-06-30 $3 bowl sells for $2.2M3美元中国瓷碗卖222万 A Chinese bowl bought at a tag sale for $3 has sold at a Sothebys auction in New York for more than $2.22m, AP reported. A New Yorker bought the bowl for $3 at a flea market in 2007 and displayed it in his living room for several years before curiosity about its origins caused him to have it examined. It turned out to be a 1,000-year-old treasure from the Northern Song Dynasty of China. The bowl was finally sold far above the presale estimate of $200,000 to $300,000. (See photo)据美联社报道，近日在纽约苏富比拍卖行，一个3美元淘来的中国瓷碗竟拍出了超过222万美元的天价。据悉，一位纽约市民2007年在一个跳蚤市场花3美元买了这个碗，然后一直把它摆放在自家客厅里多年。后来，他对这个碗的来源很好奇，就拿去鉴定，不想此碗是产自中国北宋时期的珍品，已有1000年历史。瓷碗最终高价拍出，比之前预估价(20万至30万美元之间)高出很多。(见图) 2013-06-28 Penguins play iPad games美企鹅成iPad游戏高手 The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, is believed to be the first in the world to give its penguin residents access to an iPad, the Daily Mail of London reported. This was the idea of a volunteer. He hoped that the iPad app Game for Cats could be used as an enrichment aid for the penguins. The staff were astonished when the penguins instantly took to the game and managed to score highly by tapping their beaks on the screen. (See photo)据英国《每日邮报》报道，位于美国加州长滩的太平洋水族馆被认为是全球首家让企鹅玩iPad的水族馆。这原本是一名志愿者的点子，他希望通过iPad应用猫捉老鼠给企鹅们的生活增添乐趣。令工作人员吃惊的是，企鹅们很快掌握了游戏的玩法，并通过用嘴啄屏幕取得高分。(见图) 300,000 zombie homes in US美僵尸房超30万套(图) A national survey found 301,874 zombie properties dotting the US landscape. The homeowners are in foreclosure (止赎) and have moved out, leaving the vacant properties susceptible to vandalism and degradation, Reuters reported. Florida tops the list of zombie properties with 90,556 vacant homes in foreclosure, according to a foreclosure inventory released by RealtyTrac, a real estate information company in California. Illinois and California ranked a distant 2nd and 3rd with 31,668 and 28,821 zombie properties, respectively, on the list.据路透社报道，一项全国调查结果显示，301874万套僵尸房产遍布美国各地。这些房产的业主因为房屋止赎而搬出，留下空荡的物业遭受自然或人为破败