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...long, giving to charity was an act of blind faith. Then came the Internet and Arthur "Buzz" Schmidt to help givers see whether their money was being well spent. When Schmidt left the private sector a decade ago to raise money for an international development agency, he was stunned by how little number crunching potential donors could do. So he struck out on his own, borrowing 50 shoe boxes of microfilm from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, and in 1996 began posting the financial data of nonprofit organizations on the Web. Three years later, the former agribusiness executive started...
...know it's not good for me, but for gossip and buzz I go to Jerusalem-based DEBKAfiles www.debka.com) As a source of news, the site is a curious thing--utterly compelling while still managing to be amateurish, disorganized and not always believable. Where does it get its stuff? A network of sources "in the military, in intelligence, ex-intelligence people, political people, ex-political people, business people, arms dealers," says Giora Shamis, 62, the site's editor. Named one of USA Today's Hot Sites recently, DEBKA draws 150,000 visitors a day. I'm not the only...
...gate. The software compares each face to digital images stored in a database. Cameron Queeno, Viisage's vice president of marketing, said commercial buildings--banks in particular--were shopping for systems whose costs range from $5,000 into the millions. "The tragedy of Sept. 11 turned into a buzz for the security business," he noted...
Call me crazy, but I actually enjoy the acupuncturist's needles. I can lie on a treatment table, decorated like an octogenarian's party cake for up to an hour, grooving to the warm, harmonious buzz of a balanced body. And why not? Acupuncture can scare away a migraine, soothe arthritis and calm nerves. The painless needles barely penetrate the skin. And the ancient Chinese system of medicine can do no harm...
...know it's not good for me, but for gossip and buzz I go to Jerusalem-based DEBKAfiles (www.debka.com). As a source of news, the site is a curious thing - utterly compelling while still managing to be amateurish, disorganized and not always believable. Where does it get its stuff? A network of sources "in the military, in intelligence, ex-intelligence people, political people, ex-political people, business people, arms dealers," says Giora Shamis, 62, the site's editor. Named one of USA Today's Hot Sites recently, DEBKA draws 150,000 visitors a day. I'm not the only...