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...They work out of a 22,000-sq.-ft. "cyberbroadcast" facility in Pompano Beach, Fla., with all the facilities, including a gymnasium for its workers. The place cost $1.6 million. No problem, says Hirsch; his business was profitable three months after it opened its electronic doors. You do the math: IVG serves up roughly 8,000 peep-show minutes a day at $5.95 a minute, a weekly take of roughly $300,000. Hirsch just bought a big red Mercedes-Benz. Also a five-bedroom house...
...power plant to observe "the sun balanced on the very spot where sea meets coast." The nuances of Hex's odd childhood, when pretentious Billie served him meals with "frozen foods accompanying the fine wines of Bordeaux," and when Hex wanted nothing more than to muse over "the math of [girls'] pulses," are immaculately rendered...
...math and science concentrators, Jason E. Bressner '99 suggests Pierce Hall classrooms. "It's quiet...They have those blackboards, and you can write out stuff." But hard-core crammers beware: a key is required to enter the building at night...
...When he told the FBI about his theory, they were intrigued, and asked for more. So he began deconstructing the Unabomber's taunting letters to authorities. That's how, a year before former Berkeley math professor Theodore Kaczynski was arrested in the Montana woods, Jones predicted that the Unabomber would have read author Joseph Conrad, would see himself as in "a war to save the world," and would be "an intellectual, a "conservationist," a loner, and possibly a college teacher...
...bargained over tchotchkes in a Middle Eastern market will recognize the pattern: Arafat demands Israeli withdrawal from 30 percent of the West Bank; Netanyahu offers 9 percent; the U.S. suggests 13 percent; Arafat reluctantly agrees. Today, Netanyahu announced he might meet Arafat "halfway" at 11 percent. You do the math; Al Gore won't -- he stressed repeatedly that he was here for Israel's birthday party, not as a peace negotiator...