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...with the golden arm had once again risen to the challenge, and he went on to earn his eighth Pro Bowl selection that season...
...revolution. When a traditional store sells a book of mine, I'm paid a 10% royalty. When my publisher sells by direct mail, I'm paid 5%. Under these conditions, my royalty on a $25 book can be as low as $1.25. Amazon.com changes that and allows me to earn combined fees of more than $5 per book. Never has a retailer built such fierce loyalty among its "suppliers" as Amazon has by turning authors into sales agents. Jeff Bezos may be the personification of the digital revolution, but he also knows about developing loyalties one person at a time...
...deal: register, consent to a constant barrage of ads at the bottom of your PC's screen, and earn about a penny for every minute online. Get all your friends to sign up too and make more money. They spread the word, and you make even more. And so it goes, rippling out on a virtually infinite scale ? a multilevel marketing arrangement without the garage full of vitamins or the recruiting sessions disguised as dinner parties. MORE...
...drug cartels [WORLD, Dec. 13] might believe that those who live along the U.S.-Mexico border lead lives totally dominated by the drug business. Silly me, I thought I was among hundreds of thousands of people in El Paso and Juarez who work every day at responsible jobs, earn honest dollars, come home to drug-free families, volunteer in the community, give to charity and aren't involved in criminal activity. KATHY ANDERSON El Paso, Texas...
...thought of it," said the late Richard Feynman, no slouch himself). But the great physicist was also engagingly simple, trading ties and socks for mothy sweaters and sweatshirts. He tossed off pithy aphorisms ("Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it") and playful doggerel as easily as equations. Viewing the hoopla over him with humorous detachment, he variously referred to himself as the Jewish saint or artist's model. He was a cartoonist's dream come true...