If the Briggs and Briggs Music Store is not sold by May 31, the owners will be forced to sell collectibles accumulated over the period of

57,816,000 minutes.

A man was swept into the Sao Paolo sewage system by heavy flooding and was rescued with a few bruises and broken teeth after people heard his screams in Betim, 350 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. He was trapped for

5,760 minutes.

CBS is currently developing a TV movie for next season to tell the Elian Gonzalez saga, which includes a 4 1/2 month legal battle for custody of the six-year-old. The broadcast will last approximately

120 minutes.

Debuting at the Metropolitan Opera Saturday as Wagner's "Siegfried," Danish tenor Stig Andersen received a standing ovation for his unbelievable performance during the show, which was

330 minutes.

Before his parents woke up April 1, seven-year-old Perley King of Takoma, Wash., and his dog got into the family car and, using skills honed by video game playing, drove three miles looking for Cheerios. To make certain the boy won't get behind the wheel again, General Mills is giving Perley a bike and enough Cheerios to keep his breakfasts healthy for

525,600 minutes.

After the Bush show ended last Thursday, singer-guitarist Gavin Rossdale collapsed and paramedics had to hook the British hunk up to oxygen for

20 minutes.

Kenyan runner Elijah Lagat won the Boston Marathon with a time of

129.78 minutes.

According to findings revealed by Professor Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a psychologist at Ohio State University of Medicine, at a British Psychological Society conference, bruises and cuts can take up to 24 percent longer to heal in stressed people than in other patients. This means a cut that would normally take a week to heal wouldn't heal for

10,500 minutes.

Seniors donned formal wear and flocked to the Radcliffe Yard for the Senior Soiree. This was the first year men as well as women were able to buy tickets to the traditional "Sadie Hawkins"-style event, which lasted approximately

180 minutes.

Macabre illustrator Edward Gorey '50 has had to draw his pictures of wan figures from the great beyond for

11,520 minutes.

The National Institute for Drug Abuse reports that while confusion, depression, sleep problems, anxiety, and paranoia have been reported to occur even weeks after the drug is taken, ecstasy's immediate effects can last up to

360 minutes.

Bald-headed mammoth football player Isaiah Kacyvenski '00 was the 25th pick of the fourth round, and 119th overall, in the NFL draft and will be playing for the Seattle Seahawks next year. Harvard's all-time leading tackler, a three-time All-Ivy First Teamer and the first player to start all 40 games of a Crimson football career watched the proceedings for about

570 minutes.

High-tech, full-length bodysuits designed to mimic a shark's skin in water have created a hubbub in Australian swimming because they are said to improve race times by up to three percent. When Olympic 1,500 meters champ Kieren Perkins put on the suit he sped to his fastest 400 meters freestyle time:

3.87 minutes.

There's no place like home. And there's really no pair of shoes like the 6B ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz." The shoes, worth estimated at $750,000, are up for sale at Christie's East's sale of Hollywood and television memorabilia in

48,960 minutes.

Ballet dancers should stretch each muscle group before dancing for at least

3 minutes.