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...things also suggest than Horn has an all-too-elusive grasp on the real world, like her reference to paychecks. Way passe! Anybody with any sort of a marginally permanent job these days (that's one where you're pretty confident you'll still be working tomorrow) has direct deposit. And rent! Paying rent is a clear sign of early-real-personhood (the stage where I still reside). Advanced (or real) real personhood involves shedding rent in favor of mortgage payments, thus assuming a debt burden even greater than your student loans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 'Real Person' Speaks Out | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

According to the Vancouver Province, Jordan has put a deposit on a summer rental on the coast in West Vancouver, Canada, a posh suburb where his neighbors would be folks like Bryan Adams. There, with the chords of Cuts Like a Knife wafting out to the Pacific, Jordan could decide whether to re-retire. (He left for 1 1/2 years to play baseball, and--since he refused for a long time to talk to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED after it criticized him--let's just say as an outfielder he was an outstanding shooting guard.) His agent David Falk told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: The One And Only | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Renting appliances may be an option ofconvenience, especially if you don't want to lug anewly-bought refrigerator or bulky fan back to thehomestead once Aug. 15 rolls around. Check out theHarvard Student Agencies (HSA) Campus Store. HSAoffers deals for renting tall 30" fans ($15 plus$15 deposit), refrigerators ($55 plus $35deposit), microfridges ($105 plus $50 deposit),televisions and telephones. The Campus Store alsosells lamps ($9 and up), helpful for brighteninggloomy Yard accommodations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOP `TILL YOU DROP | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...number of sites try to trick children into giving their names and addresses and worse. One unidentified "child-directed" site, according to the report, even asked each visiting kid "whether he or she has received gifts in the form of stock, cash, savings bonds, mutual funds or certificates of deposit." It also wanted to know if the parents owned mutual funds. To which I say, Any child who knows that is probably not a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell The Kids To Fib | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...storable and exchangeable. (Just ask the thousands of Russian mafiosi who pay for nearly everything with crisp $100 bills.) And it holds up pretty well. If you're afraid of banks, you can still grab a coffee can, dig a hole in the backyard and have a pretty secure deposit. But paper cash does have some awful drawbacks. Lose it and it's gone; sit on it and it may lose its value overnight: think about what just happened in Asia, or earlier in South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Bank Theory | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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