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...receives only a handful of seasonal letters from a few old friends. "People just don't write letters anymore," says his daughter Heather Bellanca. And by people, she means anyone more than 20 years younger than Murray, who lives by himself in Middlebury, Vt. So in an effort to keep him connected, Bellanca, who lives a couple of hours away in Salem, N.Y., this spring started spending $9.95 a month for a service that sends him letters every week - letters family and friends e-mail to a company that prints the correspondence and delivers it, via U.S. Postal Service...
...create computer products simple enough for the elderly to learn to use. The next generation of services has scrapped that paradigm entirely. Instead, companies like Sunnygram, Presto and Celery are turning e-mails into faxs, phone messages or stamped letters - media senior citizens already understand - so that users can keep in touch on their own terms. "My dad doesn't feel capable of managing e-mail, but I live in front of my computer," says Bellanca. Adds Presto CEO Peter Radsliff: "The adoption of all-electronic means of communication makes it more and more arduous for the technically savvy...
...guide, the government seems to be doing a less than stellar job with the two mortgage-financing giants. In the first three months of this year alone, Fannie and Freddie lost a combined $33 billion; the government has pumped $85 billion in equity into the two companies to keep them afloat. What's more, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have purchased more than $700 billion of Fannie and Freddie mortgage securities. Still, the turnaround of the two companies is not yet in sight. Lockhart said the bottom lines of Fannie and Freddie probably won't rebound for another year...
...that we're back in the 'Bridge, FlyBy is back for the summer! Sporadically, that is. We don't have as many people, so it's hard to keep up, ya know? We'll try to keep you intermittently entertained as you're chained to that desk, and figure we haven't hit it big enough yet to be blocked by your I-bank's servers. Also, we don't have real jobs, that pay, like, enough money to eat at Qdoba every day...soooo we have really nothing else...
...another in fistfights in Congress. Voters are also furious at their representatives' six-figure salaries in a nation where the minimum wage is $5 a day. And while video evidence has shown prominent politicians stacking wads of dollar bills into briefcases or extorting businessmen, the same candidates keep beating the courts and getting back on the ballot. For the voto en blanco movement, Mexico has swung from dictatorship to a kleptocracy. One YouTube video for the campaign shows supposed politicians from the three main parties laughing as they tear into a cake shaped like Mexico. (See pictures of the tunnel...