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HEAD GAMES First come the ominous e-mails. Then a voice on your answering machine threatens your nearest and dearest. No, you're not the target of an IRS audit. You're playing Majestic, a strange, sinister new computer game that doesn't just take over your computer, it invades your life. For $9.99 a month (the first "episode" is free), players get the thrill of being harassed by a mysterious conspiracy via phone, e-mail, instant messaging and the Web. If that's your idea of fun, sign up at www.majestic thegame.com...
Last year South Korea exported 1.5 million passenger vehicles, but the country's drivers bought a mere 4,414 imports. Why? Although high import duties and tax audits of Koreans who bought imports were abolished years ago, attitudes have yet to change. A survey found that 58% of car owners thought it was "unpatriotic" to own an import, and 64% thought it would still attract a tax audit...
...health risks to users." Moreover, Metricom's radios operate in two license-free frequency bands. That means, according to Howard Epstein, head of Consolidated Spectrum Services in Atkinson, N.H., that once the boxes are up, "neither the government nor the company is required to go to street corners and audit the invisible electromagnetic field they're emitting...
...Items, worth a total of nearly $70 million, found missing from the Immigration and Naturalization Service during an audit...
...Take Stock Ask your utility company to conduct an energy audit of your home to find out where it is poorly insulated or energy- inefficient...