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Some spam victims aren't waiting for the state laws to kick in. They have become spam vigilantes. Marketer Dan Balsam in Santa Monica, Calif., has waged a one-man legal campaign against spammers who refuse to remove him from their mailing lists. No judgment has netted him more than $1,000, but Balsam isn't in it for the money. "I'm trying to raise the cost of spammers doing business," he says. Los Angeles software engineer Bill Silverstein has taken an even more creative approach. When he wanted to sue a company that refused to stop sending...
...Still, by all appearances, the seedy good old days won't be forgotten anytime soon. In Marcie Davis' physical-education pool class in Fair Oaks, Calif., the reading assignment on Minnesota Fats is the hands-down favorite with her high school students. Says Davis: "The kids get a kick out of those guys." --With reporting by Noah Isackson and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...disgusted by the wimpy Democrats. I wish that they would crawl out from under their beds and stand up for something, even if it is a well-deserved kick for not voicing their opinions on the war, tax breaks for the wealthy, threats to our environment, deepening national debt, alienation of foreign countries and policies that benefit Big Business. ESSDALE WILSON Binghamton...
...Kids might get a kick out of living Swiss Family Robinson-style for a spell, but in Renudih it's hardly a lark. Over the past three years 27 people have been killed by stampeding elephants, and several women have been forced to give birth in the treetops, without medical care. Villagers are only free to come down from the trees during the daytime, when the elephant attacks cease. Officials say hundreds of other forest villages in the region are also regularly trampled by irate pachyderms. "When I visit [the villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn...
...keynote speaker, she was slotted to kick off the day with remarks...