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When Smith carried her 69-cent purse, it was mistaken for a Fendi...
...targets last week ranged from the presidential palace to a military base for Iraq's Chemical Defense Battalion to a factory for animal vaccines to three distilleries, where they found workers making 75(cent) gin but no nuclear devices. When the inspectors determined that a fermenter the U.N. had tagged as suspicious years ago was missing, Iraqi officials quickly led them to another veterinary complex, where it was located...
With intelligence and humor Raeburn's writing mixes up the highbrow world of 50-cent terminology with colloquialisms like "idjit," for "idiot." Never dry or academic, he often includes personal anecdotes like the absurd story of his torrid affair with "Peaches," the daughter of drug runner. Then he admits to making it all up. Then he says it's true, mixing up life and art as much as any historieta melodrama. Even the design, also by Raeburn, perfectly mimics the look of a typical historieta, right down the paper stock of cover. The man's commitment is total...
...candidates for Undergraduate Council President are already searching for alternative methods. To prevent wealthier candidates from having an unfair advantage, the council gives each ticket $100 and prohibits spending more. For a college of 6,400 undergraduates, a presidential hopeful can devote only about a cent and a half to reach each student. On the other hand, the council places no limit on the number of labor hours that the campaigns can garner from their student supporters...
South Korean operators have also chosen to differentiate download prices, charging one rate for text and another for multimedia content. On 2.5G networks, all the mobile operators take half a cent per packet (which represents 512 bytes) for text but only about one-quarter of a cent per packet for multimedia content. The reason? To make it more attractive for consumers to use the new traffic-intensive multimedia services such as video on demand. Otherwise, they might stick to less traffic-intensive text-based services like e-mail...