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...veteran skinny-dipper, I had spent time at smaller nudist resorts in the past and was thus prepared for most of my social encounters in the bare-skinned section of Le Cap d'Agde, separated from "the textile world" by a guarded gate where visitors pay a nominal entrance fee. One of the slogans for the Naked City, I was told, is SEE AND BE SEEN! I had also heard about "boutiques where you can use the changing room--or try it on where you stand...
...defects in a gun that injured a man in a hunting accident. The $6.8 million settlement landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Furth won his clients $70 million in 1973 on an antitrust price-fixing case against gypsum-wallboard manufacturers (and got a $4.3 million fee...
...they say lawyers can't always be counted on to put their clients' interests ahead of their own. There have been a few notorious cases, such as a class action against the Bank of Boston for alleged improprieties involving escrow fees. The lawyers were awarded $8.5 million in fees, which was taken directly from customers' bank accounts. One class-action member discovered that $91.33 in legal fees had been deducted from his account--although he received only $2.19 in interest from the settlement award. Even in more traditional fee arrangements, the sheer size of some damage awards can mean that...
...customers lured by the 90-day free-trial period have found prices rising after they signed on. "I think what they do is sucker you in with a really low price," says Amy Anuszewski, a software engineer in Reading, Pa. "Once you're hooked, they start charging a monthly fee and higher prices...
That includes classical-music aficionados, currently the fourth largest group on MP3.com who made a willing audience for the site's first such monthly-fee channel. "They're the techno-elite," says Robertson. "Also, these people have disposable income." For $9.99 a month, there are thousands of fully downloadable tracks. It's all-you-can-eat Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman and London Symphony. A second channel for children featuring fairy tales and nursery rhymes as well as songs is set for launch in July...