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...Millions of his countrymen and -women do. And fad or art form, the text message is entering the realm of popular fiction. Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, has launched an "Ask Bridget" service with Finnish wireless entertainment publisher RIOT-E. For 34 cent, subscribers can dial up a daily text message from Fielding - writing in characteristic Bridget Jones mode - on the quest for thinner thighs and inner poise. "Mobile phones are a perfect way to add another dimension to book characters," says Jan Wellman, RIOT-E's chief executive...
...time, once again, for yet another rate increase from the U.S. Postal Service. Just four short months after hiking up the cost of a first-class stamp, the financial wizards over at the soon-to-be-vacated Postmaster General?s office have discovered that, whoops, that one-cent increase isn?t going to keep them from confronting $2 billion in losses...
...siree. On Tuesday, in a move blamed in part to the growing presence of email, the postal Board of Governors announced a one-cent increase in the price of postcard stamps and a two-cent increase in the amount we pay for the second ounce of mail. In other words, you can keep your 34?cent stamps. But when you mail something heavy, you?ll be charged 23 cents, rather than 21 cents, for each additional ounce. We can all look forward to paying these new rates sometime in July, or a month and a half after the current Postmaster...
...year and would climb to $3 billion annually within five years; by comparison, Sachs says total annual U.S. aid to sub-Saharan African during the 1990s averaged just $150 million. But, Sachs points out, America's gross national product is now $10 trillion. So "each billion means one cent out of every $100 that America earns each year. We're advocating two cents to save 5 million lives." Given the stakes, it seems a small price to pay indeed...
...responsible for what happened owe nothing to people it didn't happen to. It's a fact, pure and simple, that no living African American has ever been the slave of a living white American!" "Even Southerners whose families owned slaves through the Civil War owe nobody a cent," insisted a man from Atlanta. "It's not their fault their ancestors were slave owners." Looking at the issue from another angle, a Texas reader judged, "I don't imagine Southerners could collect reparations for the property the Yankees took during the war, and we shouldn't try. Since...