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...over the Internet. The newly reopened toy store F.A.O. Schwarz is even offering a $100,000 gift card. Some of the cards include ATM access. Some let holders reload them; others permit transfer of funds to other cards or individuals. In one of the latest incarnations, at last count about 1,000 companies give their workers electronic-payroll cards to access accounts holding their wages, bonuses and commissions. Last year prepaid-card sales were $45 billion, and in 2006 sales are expected to hit $90 billion...
...girl's world out there. Pop music has room only for nymphets. Actresses over 40 are invisible to the movie camera. But the literary world is different. A woman can have a few gray hairs and still count on being published. It's a good thing too, because two of the best writers alive, Annie Proulx and Alice Munro, are well along into their golden years. And they both have new collections of stories that prove golden is the word for what they...
...nuclear issues runs counter to Iran's otherwise cautious foreign policy and could further undermine the regime's international legitimacy. Given the depth of their unpopularity at home, especially among young Iranians who want real democracy and better ties to the West, the clerics might not be able to count on the populace to rally around the flag if their reckless actions trigger a serious confrontation with the U.S. Some pro-West Iranians, believing that a showdown with the U.S. is just what is needed to make the mullahs' regime crumble, fault the Europeans for giving the mullahs...
...also the first day of the vote recounts in Ohio—which means that they began at the precise moment when they ceased to be able to impact the outcome of the election. As a result, a perfect political balance has been struck: every vote will be counted, but it’s possible that not all of them will count...
...another—and then attempted to switch back to a certified version “under the guise of routine maintenance” according to a county official. In the end, the counties used the uncertified software because it was found that the certified version did not count the votes correctly. Diebold, on the other hand, was forced to pay $2.6 million outright last month in order to settle a civil lawsuit in California in which the company was also accused of using uncertified software in an election. Not surprisingly, neither company has issued any kind of statement regarding...