[UA] David Copperfield and the Fountain of Youth.

[S McDaniel]

Race ya.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_copperfield

MIAMI (Reuters) - The man who made the Statue of
Liberty appear to vanish may soon claim to do the same
for unsightly bags and wrinkles.

Master illusionist David Copperfield says he has found
the "Fountain of Youth" in the southern Bahamas, amid
a cluster of four tiny islands he recently bought for
$50 million (26.4 million pounds).

One of his islands in the Exuma chain, Musha Cay, is a
private resort that rents for up to $300,000 a week
and the other islands serve as buffers to keep prying
eyes away from celebrity guests on the white sand
beaches.

Copperfield is coy about his reasons for the Fountain
of Youth claim, but the man best known for
entertaining with grand deception insists his
archipelago also contains the legendary waters that
bestow perpetual youth. Seriously.

"I've discovered a true phenomenon," he told Reuters
in a telephone interview. "You can take dead leaves,
they come in contact with the water, they become full
of life again. ... Bugs or insects that are near
death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly
away. It's an amazing thing, very, very exciting."

Copperfield, who turns 50 next month, said he had
hired biologists and geologists to examine its
potential effect on humans but he's not inviting
visitors to swim in or drink from it just yet. 

"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool." - Kurt Vonnegut

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