"Just a few blocks from here," I say, giving him the address.

A block due in 1999 traded at $420, one trader said.

"The school's just two blocks away," he said, pointing up the street.

"So the museum's three blocks away, right over there," she said.

Mr. Block said "you will have to figure it all out more carefully."

Mr. Block said he does not discuss his family in interviews.

Large blocks of 100,000 square feet or more average about $15 per square foot a year, up 7 percent from 1997, he said.

If this block of wood dances, who's to say my dining room table isn't going to take off?

For Gore, the largest block (51 percent) said they liked his "experience and intellect."

The block of ice, his Yale chin jutting out, said nothing.