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...Sims 2 (Maxis, PC, 2004) Legendary designer Will Wright had an all-time best seller on his hands the first time he introduced us to those virtual human pets known as the Sims. Betting that we wanted to make them mingle with others - and would pay a monthly fee for the privilege - Wright then released The Sims Online, which flopped badly. Turns out we'd rather play on our own, thank you very much. Wright got the message, and The Sims 2 looks set to be his most exciting game yet. Now your Sims age from childhood, give birth...
...bogs or dusty, potholed nightmares. "Ass-shatteringly bad," one visitor warned me. "I had back problems for weeks," confided another. Indeed, when I told my driver I wanted to go beyond Siem Reap's asphalt to sample the infamous hardship of roads less traveled, he promptly tripled his daily fee...
...Friday’s party was for a purpose: the entrance fee of five dollars will be funneled to raise money for Pediatric AIDS Research, members...
Captivate charges a building owner about $8,000 an elevator to install the screens and collects a $100 monthly service fee on each. Captivate divides the ad dollars with the landlord, who earns revenue from an asset that would otherwise rack up only service costs. Sam Gilliland, 41, CEO of Travelocity, a Captivate client, says elevator placement enables him to send location-specific ads to potential customers in different cities. "This is an opportunity to break through clutter," he says. Unfortunately, Captivate screens offer no audio (so far at least), so elevator music has yet to be vanquished...
...Holdings are the kind of owners Heavin hoped for when he set the monthly franchise fee at a low $395 in 1995. His success took the franchise industry by surprise. "A few years ago, this company called Curves started showing up on our lists," says Maria Anton, executive editor of Entrepreneur magazine, which recently ranked Curves the fastest-growing franchise in the world. "We said, 'Whoa, where did this company come from...