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...true power of on-line shopping cannot be experienced without the use of an Internet-based intelligent shopping agent. Such agents are similar to Internet search engines in that they allow you to find particular Internet resources. But unlike search engines, which allow you to find World Wide Web sites that present content on a particular subject, shopping agents seek out the World Wide Web sites of e-commerce vendors that sell a particular product...
MySimon is not the only intelligent shopping agent in the game. Agents such as Jango (http://www.jango.com/) are beginning to partner with leading Internet search engines such as Excite and leading credit card companies such as Master-Card to put together an even easier framework for on-line shopping...
Indeed, a cat-and-mouse game has evolved between smoking teens and the special patrols (who cruise for smokers during overtime hours). "They 'make' the car," says an agent. "They see us coming and spread the word." Sometimes the agents double back when the kids think the coast is clear and catch them red-handed. Police cruised past a public park in Broward County one recent evening and spotted two boys swinging on a set of parallel bars. "Is that a cigarette that he's holding?" asked a sheriff's deputy. The officers approached the boys and confiscated half...
After studying in Switzerland and Germany, the cosmopolitan young Morgan arrived on Wall Street in 1857, serving as agent for his father Junius Spencer Morgan, who had taken over a London merchant bank. Though Pierpont participated in refinancing the Civil War debt in the 1870s, he acquired true imperial status in underwriting America's railroads...
...widowed at 20, Breedlove earned a subsistence living as a laundress in St. Louis, Mo. Seeking to supplement her income--and cure her case of alopecia, or baldness, commonly suffered by black women at the time because of scalp diseases, poor diet and stress--Breedlove became an agent for Annie Turnbo Pope Malone's Poro Co., selling its "Wonderful Hair Grower." Realizing the potential of these products, Breedlove took her daughter and $1.50 in savings to Denver, married her third husband, a newspaper sales agent named Charles Joseph Walker, and with him established a hair-care business that made brilliant...