Winner & Loser

A book lover finds some famous art, and yellow-pages readers meet some infamous tarts

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Winner

A book collector in the Netherlands got a surprise when he bought a box of secondhand books for $25 -- and found two Rembrandt etchings, worth $16,500, hidden inside. The etchings, one of Rembrandts mother and the other of the Good Samaritan, were bought last week at a market in Deventer, 60 miles east of Amsterdam.

Loser

A company that prints yellow pages misidentified the internet address of the White House web page, leading browsers to a porn site (www.whitehouse.com) instead of the president (www.whitehouse.gov). Nearly a million copies have already gone out to customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.