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News flash from the Federal Reserve. Sorry, it's not a drop in interest rates. It's the fact that Americans now make more payments electronically--by credit or debit card or via the Internet--than by paper checks. In 1995 consumers wrote 49.5 billion checks. By 2000 that number had dropped 14% to 42.5 billion. Meanwhile, online bill payment is now used by some 12 million households, up from 10 million...
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...chief in this Maryland suburb for three years, is known for his sharp eyes and even sharper tongue - and the latter was in plain view Wednesday when Moose blasted the news media for revealing "too much" information about the search for the killer, most notably details concerning a tarot card located near the middle school where a 13-year-old boy was shot. 'I have not received any message that the citizens?want Channel 9 or The Washington Post or any other media outlet to solve this case,'' Moose said. ''If they do, then let me know. We will...
...link the shootings by analyzing the bullets and casings they've recovered, for example, the high velocity rounds found in some of the victims can be used in many different kinds of guns, including hunting rifles and military weapons. Another bit of evidence surfaced late Tuesday: a tarot card with the words, "Dear Policeman: I am God" scrawled across it. Did it actually come from the sniper or from a prankster? That's one more mystery for investigators to ponder. A side note on the tarot card: those familiar with tarot card meanings say that whoever left the card...
...information, challenging assumptions we make about him, and generally taking great pleasure in outsmarting all of us. The shooter knows he's got our attention, Van Zandt speculates, - he gets all the confirmation he needs whenever he turns on the television - and hints like the carefully placed tarot card mean he's playing to the spotlight. We don't know anything for sure about the killer's state of mind, but chances are he's enjoying himself enormously...