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Online ad agencies say they only want to improve the consumer experience, not gather dirt on webbies. "The point is to receive information that you are interested in as opposed to what you are not," says Lyn Chitow Oakes, coo of ad agency FlyCast. "It doesn't seem like advertising if you're interested in it." For example, DoubleClick has 50 million active cookies, which means that 50 million people see at least one targeted ad a month. This prolific snooping is nothing new. Credit-card companies have been building databases for years and offering deals based on your spending...
...Omanses, for their part, trade for both flexibility and the unexpected rewards of the exchange system. Several years ago, they wanted to follow a planned visit to their grown children in Boston with a vacation in Vermont. They contacted a Colorado woman, Joanna Lyn Merriman, who had a second home in Vermont. The timing wasn't convenient for Merriman, who banked the swap and eventually transferred her "credit" to her best friend, whose husband was in the last stages of cancer. "They stayed 10 days," Jan Omans recalls, "and after he died, his wife wrote that her husband had wanted...
...about the false letter Joyner had read. It's not clear what happened next. Though CompUSA's president and CEO, James Halpin, says he never told ABC he was planning legal action against Joyner, ABC got weak in the knees. According to Joyner and Smiley, the network's president, Lyn Andrews, warned them that if they did not stop talking about CompUSA, then ABC might "pull the plug on the show." An ABC spokesperson said the network only wanted Joyner to hold...
...have to take special steps to make a child feel secure. This can range from reaching out to religious leaders and extended family in order to help reaffirm the adopted child's inclusion, to keeping a watchful eye out for unhelpful, if well-intended, teasing ("My little Mexican one"). Lyn and Arthur Dobrin of Westbury, N.Y., adopted an African-American child, Kori, as a sibling to their biological son Eric. They devised a game they called Categories, in which Daddy and Eric were boys, Mommy and Kori were girls; Mommy and Daddy were adults, Eric and Kori were kids...
January 1999: Director of Communications Lyn Chamberlin and RPPI Administrative Director Susan Shefte resign within a week of one another...