Word: mailed
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...comes as little surprise that a group of animal rights activists is getting violent--this time mailing razor blades in letters to medical researchers. We have been very fortunate in the United States to have experienced so little violence and terrorism by the animal liberation movement. In Great Britain, where animal rights violence has become commonplace, there have been dozens of incidents annually in recent years: mail and car bombings, razor letters, arsons and violent home demonstrations...
...must acknowledge that I sometimes experience a feeling of being marginalized," Spiegelman wrote in an e-mail message. "Since the leaders on the faculties are primarily male, my job as a woman administrator has an extra challenge...
...offering of 8.4 million shares was 63 times oversubscribed. It is now one of Germany's hottest stocks, trading in the $19 range. Beate Uhse is likewise expanding operations elsewhere in Europe and beyond. In September the company acquired a chain of 44 "erotic discount centers," plus a Dutch mail-order company that offers a full range of sex toys, videos and publications. The discount centers are all located in small towns in the Netherlands and neighboring countries; Beate Uhse shops are located in main shopping districts in larger cities. Beate recently launched retail websites in Austria and Switzerland...
TRICK OR TREAT Last week the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on Web businesses that entice kids with games and entertainment in exchange for personal information they then sell to marketers. As part of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC now requires companies to e-mail parents for permission before receiving names, addresses, phone numbers or other information from children under 13. The commission also stipulates that the material cannot be shared with other firms...
FREEBIE First there was free e-mail, then free PCs. Now a marketing company, Broadscape.com is giving away free 19-in. computer monitors to applicants who sign up at their website. As always, there's a catch: in exchange for the hardware, consumers must share personal data, like income and interests. And ads will stream across the screen while users are online. With hardware so cheap these days, and advertising so pervasive, consumers will have to decide if the trade-off--mind share for monitor--is worth...