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...early days of the Internet, media tycoons from the old line venues looked to the Internet with fear. Ubiquitous and cheap, the new medium threatened their businesses with extinction or, worse, irrelevance. They did what any responsible business owner would do when faced with such a situation: they attempted, quite successfully, to co-opt the revolution by launching their own Internet news and analysis sites. By 2001, CBS Marketwatch, CNN.com and Dow Jones OpinionJournal.com had proven far more influential and popular than their upstart new economy challengers TheStreet.com, Slate.com and Salon.com. The revolution, it appeared, was over...
...University of Colorado at Boulder, where frequent binge drinking among women rose 67% between 1993 and 2000, women routinely brag of matching men in alcohol consumption. Sarah, 21, describes a "keg stand"--two friends suspend you by your ankles over a keg, and you guzzle as much cheap beer as quickly as you can--and beams: "There are girls who can go longer than guys!" It's not just other girls who are keeping track either. "Here, if a girl gets drunk, it's, 'You're awesome,'" says Don Groves, who graduated from the university in December. "Girls...
...rich at Microsoft and Dell by loading up on their employers' stock (thus the Dellionaires). Bill Gates' portfolio is still overwhelmingly Microsoft. Bad planning, Bill. And how about the folks who retire from Wal-Mart and can shop at Tiffany because they bought Sam Walton's stock on the cheap? One stock. One company...
...kinda" culture. The country's youth these days aspire to little more than to be considered kojare, or kinda stylish. Clothes from inexpensive thrift stores, like mom's elastic-waisted skirts from the late '70s, are the height of fashion. Makeup is unnecessary. Kids get their kicks at cheap eateries, where they can flirt with kogirei (kinda attractive) waiters. Even emotions and sensations are getting a yen-like devaluation. Japanese youth don't work up a proper appetite, they get kobarabeta (a little peckish). The good jobs are disappearing, banks teetering, the population aging, and more and more people...
Like a lot of Samsung's new devices, these combine cutting-edge technology with award-winning design - at premium prices. That's something new for a company that only a few years ago was known as a mass marketer of cheap TVs and VCRS - the kind you bought off a shipping pallet if you couldn't afford a Sony or Mitsubishi. Since 1997, however, Samsung has begun rubbing shoulders with the market leaders in high-end cell phones, DVD players, elegant flat plasma TVs and a wide range of other consumer products. These gadgets are sometimes less expensive than those...