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Many online consumers, however, are skittish about leaving any footprints in cyberspace. Susan Scott, executive director of TRUSTe, a firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., that rates Websites according to the level of privacy they afford, says a survey her company sponsored found that 41% of respondents would quit a Web page rather than reveal any personal information about themselves. About 25% said when they do volunteer information, they lie. "The users want access, but they don't want to get correspondence back," she says...
...years, and urban tax bases have eroded as businesses and affluent residents have fled to the suburbs. Since the mid-1970s, when New York and other big cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, mayors have had to work hard just to stay afloat: they literally can no longer afford to preside over bloated bureaucracies or coddle unions at contract time. "There's just a different set of problems mayors are facing today," says Barnard College political science professor Ester Fuchs. "If they want to have cities at all, the name of the game is keeping their budgets balanced, keeping...
...contrast, the annual catch of red snapper from the Gulf averages only around 3 million fish. Indeed, so many snappers are being scooped up as by-catch that the productivity of the fishery has been compromised. Fortunately, there is a solution. Shrimp nets can be outfitted with devices that afford larger animals like snappers and sea turtles a trapdoor escape hatch...
...County in the position of letting private firms pass judgment on the contents of a medium that's supposed to offer easy access to all--a notion that's especially dubious in the case of the "free public library," Internet provider of last resort for those who can't afford a computer. "We serve the information needs of the whole community," says Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. "Identifying one standard for everyone violates the rights of everybody else...
With money flowing in from Graceland, EPE could afford to turn its attention to a thornier problem: controlling Elvis' name and likeness. Earnest collectors of Elvisabilia remember the late '70s and early '80s as a woeful time when shoddy gewgaws--Elvis toenail clippers, vials of "Elvis Presley's Sweat"--were sold with impunity and by companies that paid no licensing fees to EPE. At issue was what is known as "rights of descendability of publicity"--legalese for the ability of a famous person to control the use of his or her name and likeness. Existing law, while not entirely clear...