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...There's more good news. FCC officials and telecom execs alike predict that Wednesday's overhaul will push the land-line phone business further down the road toward flat-fee pricing, with either unlimited usage (rather like an Internet service) or a bundle of minutes (like wireless plans). Will that save you money? The government is optimistic, consumer groups are less so, and the phone companies aren't saying. If price restructuring brings savings, who'll benefit, consumers or stockholders? On Thursday investors, more concerned about this week's economic numbers than the goings-on at the FCC, were noncommittal...
MOTOROLA T900 $200, plus a monthly fee; available in July Made just for teens, the T900 enables chums to do wireless e-mail and instant messaging...
PDAs, with their larger screens, are a better bet for Web surfing. But they're expensive. A Palm VII costs $449, plus the monthly fee you pay for any wireless service. And they're not much use when you need to make a phone call. One-way pagers seem pretty antiquated these days, but two-way pagers with Web access can be a less expensive and highly portable way to access discrete bits of information. You can already use them to send and receive e-mail, buy the new Toni Braxton CD on Amazon.com ditch your Microsoft stock...
...began borrowing at two other payday-lending firms before turning to Ace, where she was "astonished at the number of senior citizens that were coming in each month." In a typical transaction, she borrowed $200 for 12 days and paid a $30 fee--an annual interest rate of 456%. If she missed a payment, she says, she would owe an additional $30. "By the end of the month," she says, "I would have no money." Finally, a distressed Rowings, who had always believed in paying her debts but was worn down by the endless dunning calls from bill collectors...
...house; the baby, Alexander, is born after 36 hours of labor on a Christmas morning. "It's amazing," Katherine tells her daughter, "how nature slaps women with everything at once--you take care of a new baby 24 hours a day, just when you're most exhausted." For a fee, a local firm called MotherKind provides cooking and cleaning and moral support for the new mother's first few weeks. Then, "MotherKind was finished; Kate herself was MotherKind...