5 things that (implausibly) sold for $1

What can one dollar buy you? Newsweek, apparently, but also the rights to the Terminator movies, an Ohio hospital, and a haunted lighthouse in Connecticut

Newsweek recently sold for $1 to 91-year-old Sidney Harman
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Newsweek, the venerable if struggling news magazine, has been saved from collapse by businessman and philanthropist Sidney Harman who told the staff, "I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make joy." The audio-equipment tycoon, 91, reportedly bought Newsweek from The Washington Post Company for the nominal sum of $1 — while taking on tens of millions of dollars in liabilities (the magazine lost over $70 million in 2008 and 2009). But the news weekly is far from the only major asset to have changed hands for a single dollar. Here's a quick list:

1. TV Guide

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