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There's no question the opportunities are there. Today there are more than 7.4 million small businesses in the U.S., and roughly 62% have a presence online. Most small businesses use the Internet only for e-mail, and a mere fraction have discovered online auctions. Business is expected to boom. Small businesses will account for approximately $118 billion in e-commerce in 2002, up from roughly $25 billion in 1999, according to AMI-Partners, a New York City-based Internet research firm specializing in small businesses...
...which they shall give their votes." Proponents of reform say that Congress could pass a law requiring that electors be chosen on Election Day and also give their votes on Election Day. That would leave the states with no avenue but to consider each individual voter to be a fraction of an elector...
...others. Of the more than 600,000 votes cast in Broward County, the machines found no vote for president on 6,686 ballots in a place that gave Gore 68 percent of the vote. In counties in which ballots were scanned by other means, the percentage was typically a fraction of 1 percent. In Pinellas County, when election officials removed the chaff from ballots before they were submitted for recount by the machines, Gore picked up an additional 417 votes...
...initiative. But I had more trouble with the vision of millions of doe-eyed eighteen year-olds dialing up for degrees without leaving their desks. Sure, digital diplomas are often cheaper than the traditional parchment ones, but I assumed that virtual students got precisely what they paid for - a fraction of the collegiate experience devoid of all the time-honored rituals like keg parties and all-nighters during finals...
...number of critically endangered freshwater turtles, prized in Southeast Asia for food and medicines, has more than doubled. Among birds, the number of threatened albatrosses jumped from three to 16, owing to long-line fishing. Even more alarming, say environmentalists, is that the Red List comprises just a fraction of the world's 1.75 million known species--let alone the millions more that have yet to be discovered...