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...come in the form of unemployment. Calling in those loans would force the loan-takers to sell off assets, resulting in many cases in bankruptcy. Already, bankruptcies are at a record high. In the 12 months through June 19, 194 companies went belly-up according to bankruptcy trackers Teikoku Databank. Among those were national institutions like the Sogo chain of department stores and giant insurance company Tokyo Mutual Life...
...charging for the privilege. His latest project is Artprice.com, which helps dealers and collectors determine the fair value of fine arts. To create this databank, Ehrmann put together the results of 4 million auctions plus other art indexes and benchmarks as well as information about more than 231,000 artists from the 4th century to the present. To access the databank, an art lover needs a subscription - $20, the minimum, gets you 20 searches - but soon anyone will be able to search the databank on a per-minute basis and be billed via phone bill. Ehrmann also provides wholesale rates...
...BRAIN Where does James Bond keep the keys to his Aston Martin? Chances are they're dangling from a remarkable (and at $14, unusually inexpensive) gadget called the Merconnet Magic-I Keychain Databank. About the size and shape of an anchovy, the Magic-I holds 120 names and phone numbers, plus a calendar and an alarm clock (with times for 100 cities worldwide). You don't even need cables to upload data to it--it reads the information straight off your monitor screen. Aston Martin sold separately...
...conversation subsides while a contestant from Chicago attempts to answer a question worth $64,000. The tension mounts while the man searches in his mental databank for the rapper who sang "Cop Killa...
...idea of transferring knowledge instead of patients may be the most important medical trend of the next decade. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, such information and expertise warehouses as the Duke Databank and Henry Ford Hospital will become resources for doctors all over the world. Knowledge that once took decades or years to spread from research centers to practicing physicians now moves in hours...