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While that number is high now, it is nothing compared to the expected boom in Internet sales in the coming years. Today, by NGA estimates, 90 percent of most products are sold in stores, and only one percent of sales occur over the Internet. Yet, by the year 2002, electronic commerce within the United States is projected to grow from a current $8 billion to $300 billion, and the NGA calculates this will cost states and localities between $8 billion to $10 billion in foregone revenues. This is an expensive problem: states raise 50 percent of their revenues from sales...
...will be a kids' book, a CD and lithographic portraits of the characters. Two of the more notable of several new books on the subject are Moses: A Life by Jonathan Kirsch and The Road to Redemption by Rabbi Burton Visotzky (a consultant on the new film). The Moses boom is already intensifying the debate that theologians and archaeologists have been waging for years about the ancient prophet, amplifying and revivifying the much told story...
Will today's giddy economic boom give way to a brutal postholiday hangover? Last week the Dow Jones stock average slipped on confusing news of megamergers by some companies and thousands of layoffs at others. It then recovered slightly after the Department of Labor announced that the November unemployment rate dipped...
...that corner has been turned -- indeed, whether it really has -- is a major subject of contention among experts. "There are many reasons," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes, "but demographics is probably the most important." The baby boom generation has simply started aging beyond the most crime-prone years. Additional factors include more sophisticated and more effective law enforcement, says Barnes. "Police have analyzed what kinds of crimes serious criminals engage in routinely," he explains, "and they are nabbing suspects in their regular work, grabbing them while they engage in lesser daily crimes before they move on to more serious ones...
...living in an [economic] boom time and unprecedented low unemployment," he said. "What's going to happen when this economic period ends...