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...online service Daly uses, called Netflix, just passed the 500,000-subscriber mark, riding a boom in DVDs and discontentment with the old rental model. Indeed, founder Reed Hastings got the idea for the company when he was hit with a $40 late fee for a copy of Apollo 13 back in 1998. "If I'd returned it on time," he says, "we wouldn't be here today." Now Jupiter Media Metrix rates Netflix.com as one of the 10 busiest e-commerce sites, a list that also includes eBay and Amazon. Every day 82,000 DVDs roll through the conveyor...
...Then there are the new taxes, like the $10 per ticket charge put into place last fall to help pay for new security measures. Given its purpose, this particular fee is unlikely to ruffle any feathers, but if it is simply the first of many new hikes, passengers could rebel and refuse to fly, further deflating the market...
Whole villages are sometimes complicit in the sale of their children. The procurers, says Sompop Jantraka, a Thai activist who has saved thousands of girls from being sold into brothels, might be the wives of village heads. Teachers know which children are vulnerable, and some alert procurers for a fee. Sompop has seen pickup trucks leaving schools full of girls sold to brothels in what is called the "green harvest." A police officer is often at the wheel. "This is a war," Sompop says, "a war for our children...
...open to anyone who pays a $25 fee, and parents are having their kids take it at younger and younger ages--for practice, for bragging rights, for a chance to get into programs for gifted children at universities like Johns Hopkins. More than 172,000 students in eighth grade or lower took SAT or ACT college entrance exams last year, up 19% since...
...refused to bail out Sogo, a hopelessly debt-ridden but beloved chain of department stores, forcing it into bankruptcy. And the bank initiated bankruptcy proceedings against First Credit Corp., Japan's biggest mortgage-loan specialist. Aside from overhauling its investment-banking business, Shinsei also launched a retail business featuring fee-free, 24-hour services at its network of 56,000 atms?a concept considered revolutionary here. Shinsei offers savers returns higher than those of traditional banks, at which, Yashiro notes, the annual interest income on a 1 million yen deposit?about $7,700?is worth the equivalent...