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Hillary And Meryl Actress Meryl Streep uses her iPhone to snap a photo of her and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton following the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday at the State Department in Washington.

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Number: $9,000 You may want to take a closer look at those paintings at the local thrift store. One painting, called "Red Nose" was purchased by a Milwaukee woman for $12. It turned out to be a lithograph by artist Alexander Calder worth $9,000.

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