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...What other product created in the 1940s still sells well, almost completely unaltered? Goodnight Moon, Pat the Bunny and The Poky Little Puppy, sexagenarians nearly all; each still moves more than 150,000 hardbacks just about every year. And let's not even start on Dr. Seuss or P.D. Eastman. (Well, we can start: Green Eggs and Ham sold more than 500,000 copies in 2001, 41 years after it was published...
Ginny Shear, 52, of LeRoy, N.Y., a quality-assurance technician for Eastman Kodak, devotes a lot of her spare time to serving as the executive director of the Women's Motorcyclist Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about motorcycling. In 1996 the group started the Pony Express Relay, a national run to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Three such relays have been held; the last, in 2000, drew about 700 men and women and raised $450,000. The next event, scheduled for July, will have participants joining the route at various points from...
...Jonah Eastman, a Washington pollster, was a top Republican image meister in his better days. But his reputation is down, and he's just about out when he is summoned by a Philadelphia Mafia don who makes him an offer he can't refuse: Improve my image. The mobster, Mario Vanni, wants enough legitimacy to win a big casino license. Conflicted, Eastman obliges, and Money Wanders (St. Martin's) becomes a riotous parody of Internet players, journalists, politicians and pollsters alike. Eastman finds himself surrounded by Atlantic City wise guys, including some who regard the "Ivory League" graduate...
...result, many companies are building private exchanges, through which they can buy or sell on their own terms. Eastman Chemical, based in Kingsport, Tenn., is doing more than $400 million a year in business through its eastmanmarketplace.com website, established in November 1999. "Thanks to e-commerce, I now enjoy my job again," says sales rep Geri Mitchell...
That job is selling polyethylene to makers of such products as buckets and food packaging. Until Eastman set up its website, Mitchell fielded 40 to 50 calls a day from potential buyers and haggled over prices for hours. "I was getting cauliflower ear," she says. Now she simply tells the buyers when to log on to the website for an auction. Within 15 minutes, it's all over, with an e-mail message going out automatically to the winner. But when supplies of polyethylene are scarce, Mitchell stops doing auctions and doles it out to select buyers with whom...