Word: junks
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WORRY-FREE WEB browsing Have you ever hesitated to fill out an online form for fear you would be deluged with junk e-mail for life? Now enonymous.com offers free downloadable software that ranks the privacy policies of 10,000 websites. As soon as you reach an online form on any of the sites, a window pops up with a rating. One star means the site will disclose your personal information without your explicit permission, while four stars mean your privacy is fully protected. One-star sites include ticketmaster.com and gap.com while qvc.com and bestbuy.com earn top honors...
...that you've bought a zippy new computer, what happens to the old one? Junk machines are becoming a big garbage problem that can't be solved by emptying the Trash icon on your desktop...
...brings me to another batch of three: The Crash of the Millennium by Ravi Batra, who, as they say, has called five out of the past two recessions; Beat the Millennium Crash by Jake Bernstein; and Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Dutch tulip bulbs to junk bonds) by Edward Chancellor. The bubble theories in these books at the very least provide some counterweight to the sky's-the-limit authors...
...According to a new study by researchers at Iowa State University at Ames, when parents smoke, drink too much alcohol, eat too much junk food and otherwise neglect their health, their kids often do the same. By the same token, kids whose moms and dads exercise and watch their diet tend to follow that example. In two-parent households, children seem to follow parents closely along gender lines, with boys mimicking Dad's lifestyle and girls copying...
Last week the families of 10 former astronauts held the first-ever auction of U.S. space memorabilia at Christie's in New York City. The final bids for used Apollo and Gemini space junk were wildly extravagant but still pale next to the budget of the space program today. Perhaps NASA should have done some bargain hunting...