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...ever because the eBay staff was well aware that thousands of individuals outside the company--single mothers, disabled people, seniors--were supporting themselves by selling on eBay. "It was probably the single most stressful time we've had at eBay," says Skoll of the August crash. "Poor Meg would catch an hour's sleep on a cot and then have to face the TV cameras." There have also been occasional embarrassments (and some probable hoaxes) that the press--and late-night talk-show hosts--have had fun with: the seller who put a kidney up for sale (the bidding...
...community angle is one that eBay executives work hard to promote. Users find electronic newsletters catering to their obsessive interests, visit chat rooms where buyers and sellers can get acquainted and swap tips, drop in at a cafe where they can catch up on the latest community news. Everywhere you turn--or click--you find the chipper, boosterish tone of a small-town newspaper--that is, a small-town paper with almost 8 million writers and readers...
...botched stab at health care reform, his tenfold expansion of Head Start's budget has been virtually unopposed. That's political currency for Gore, who's made an art form of denouncing the President's failures and taking credit for his successes. For Bradley, who's been playing catch-up since the campaign season began, Gore's proposal just widens the gap. Where's Willis Reed when he needs...
Maybe so, but is the rest of the country ready for Bradley's message of kindness and civility? Not if they happen to catch him on an off day--and he has his share of them. He's sharper in evening appearances, at roughly the same time an NBA basketball game begins, by coincidence. He wowed Teamsters Local 238 at an evening chili feed in Cedar Rapids last week. But in the morning you half expect to see him sleepwalk into a room with the hanger still in his coat...
...such a tizzy over technology. Mpeg-3, a longtime standard for digital music on the Net, entered the spotlight this year when MP3.com issued its IPO and MP3 players were declared legal. Now you don't need a recording label to make it big--and industry execs are playing catch...