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Kirshner dials 1-800-709-6263, a number appearing in a Cosmopolitan ad that reads: "Our professional psychics can make you life as predictable as the moon. $3.99 per minute...
...numerically prosperous. An average annual wage of more than $45,000 makes it one of the richest cities in the state. Unemployment for residents has dipped below 2.5 percent. Spending per student is more than twice the state's average. There are many new businesses and posh commercial properties. Home values are high...
...wait: Visa reports that roughly 8 cents of every $100 spent online is lost to fraud - more, if only slightly, than the 7 cents per $100 lost in the bricks-and-mortar world. So why shouldn't consumers be concerned? Answer: The perpetrators, by and large, are not hackers snatching credit-card numbers out of cyberspace. Typically, they tend to be the same old Dumpster divers and mail thieves they've always been, stealing card numbers off receipts and bills and then trying to pass as the cardholder. And if they succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits...
...1970s, Plymouth's domestic sales maxed out at 750,000 per annum, buoyed by its success in stock car racing. Then globalization - and fuel shortages - set in. In more recent times, the Detroit behemoths have begun to gobble up foreign automakers, notably Volvo and Saab, with younger demographics and better brand images, and some of America's most famous brand names, such as Plymouth and Oldsmobile, have begun to feel the pinch as the companies seek to cut marketing and advertising costs by focusing on brands with a more youthful image. Oldsmobile, with sagging sales throughout the decade despite many...
...were, unsurprisingly, Fight Club and Double Jeopardy. But No. 10 was very unusual indeed. Not only had The Omega Code, by an unknown independent called Gener8Xion Entertainment, grossed $2.4 million in three days, but it had done so in a mere 304 theaters, yielding by far the highest dollars-per-screen figure in the Top 10. And the suits didn't know the half of it. The movie, it turns out, was funded by what the Hollywood Reporter's David Finnigan describes (fondly--he moonlights as a religion journalist) as "a little Christian cable channel most noted...