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Thomas Baldwin, a 67-year-old resident of Bellingham, Washington, made news himself when he bought 10,000 copies of The Bellingham Herald’s election wrap-up edition. Yes! He purchased–at 50 cents a piece–10,000 copies of the same issue of one newspaper… And why? Well, Mr. Baldwin believes that this particular edition will become a collector’s item and be worth oodles of money because the cover has a picture of America’s first ever black president-elect and a headline that reads “Obama Wins.”