Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pie in the sky, you say? Yes, pie and pie squared. Just wait till you hear about land blimps. As more and more sites promise faster and faster deliveries (check out urbanfetch.com or kozmo.com which delivers videos, ice cream and best-selling novels to your door in under an hour...
Not that an interstate full of delivery trucks will spell the death of your mall. "People will go shopping in stores as a social activity," predicts high-tech guru Esther Dyson, but "there may be a lot of showrooms and fewer places where you actually take things home." Should you...
Not at all, but if Mr. You've Got Mail regresses to old tech, can e-commerce really be that easy? With Case onboard, and TIME's Person of the Year issue to dangle before guests, I pursued a Noah's Ark theory of who else to invite: two members...
First things first: I needed a new salt shaker (more than one coffee drinker had got a nasty surprise spooning salt out of the makeshift bowl I keep it in) and a tablecloth that actually fit. I ordered both from Williams-Sonoma williams-sonoma.com) This is where I first felt Screen...
Getting great coffee was a comparative breeze. I went directly to the sources--a Hawaiian plantation, cornwellcoffee.com for Kona, and to bluemountaincoffee.com for Jamaica's Blue Mountain beans. This is also when I became a Coffee Bore. At most sites it's easier to get in than to get out...