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...brokerage customers screening mutual funds according to their desire for current income or long-term capital appreciation, users also specify their romantic goals. Are they seeking an e-mail pen pal? A life partner? Finally, users receive a roster of other members who meet their criteria, and the e-chase...
...however, that the American Repertory Theatre's performance of Loot can be sedate with Orton's story being what it is. At the funeral of Mrs. McLeavy, her son Harold and his gay lover Dennis, having robbed a bank, need a place to hide the money as the police chase after them. They stuff the body in a closet, but scheming nurse Fay (Laurie Williams) discovers their plan and demands to be a part of it. Throw in a shockingly ambivalent and corrupt police inspector Truscott (Jeremy Geidt), a series of farcical cover-ups and Orton's scathing lines...
Banks used to market themselves based on service, convenience and low checking fees. From now on, they could also tout themselves on the basis of who's the least annoying. That's after Chase Manhattan, America's third largest bank, announced Tuesday that it will no longer sell information about its customers' finances to telemarketers, and won't release any information at all without written consent. It wasn't an entirely selfless move - New York attorney general Elliot Spitzer, who accused Chase of violating the self-imposed contract terms of its new accounts, nudged the bank into reform...
...could prove to be profitable. While no other major banks have so far indicated a willingness to follow Chase's lead, that will surely change if the bank can leverage its new hassle-free status into a marketing tool. All things being equal, it's hard to imagine anyone not choosing the bank that shields them from name-butchering telemarketers trying to push life insurance or investment "opportunities." The reform drew immediate praise from consumer groups, including the Consumers Union and the ACLU, which, in the wake of computerization, have increasingly focused on protecting the privacy of personal data...
...HAWK, which is under development, is a $45 million drone with a 116-ft. wingspan that can fly for more than a day, scouring terrain and relaying video to a ground station 3,000 miles away. Last March a Hawk on a simulated mission surprised its manned F-16 chase plane by rolling onto its back at 400 m.p.h., diving and smashing into the California desert. An investigation found that the plane had even prepared to die: it shut its engine down, erased classified computer data and set its flaps for a death spiral...