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...year. "It's become a different kind of club--so now different people dominate," she explained. "It doesn't have an identity anymore." She says the only reason she has retained her membership is that her parents pay for it. "If it came out of my own pocket, I would never join," she says...
...generation of phones that would let me browse the Web virtually anywhere. After a few minutes of research, I settled on the Motorola StarTac 7860 ($240). I decided to buy it partly because it's the latest in Motorola's venerable line of lightweight (4.4 oz.), pocket-size flip phones. But what really sold me was the fact that this phone could double as a 14.4-bps modem--I could string a cable between it and my laptop and surf the Net or send and receive e-mail on its bigger screen using my normal jquit@well.com account...
...that I know how to use it--more on that travesty below--I would unequivocally recommend the 7860 to anyone in the market for a pocket-size Web-browsing phone. The battery lasts three days and recharges in a few hours. The navigation, while not as elegant as on my wife's bulkier Nokia, is fine. And the Web, even when viewed on the phone's postage-stamp-size screen, is surprisingly readable. I can go to any site, read the text and bookmark it for later. For instance, on the train, I visit the site formerly known as Media...
...said. But after promoting her virtual book on woman-friendly websites and selling 150 downloadable copies at $9.95 each, she hocked the jewelry she got from her ex-husband to print 3,000 paperback copies. The Amazon reader reviews were so positive that she soon got a contract from Pocket Books, which made her the first online author to get a book deal. Lip Service has now sold more than 40,000 copies. And she has a contract with Pocket Books for her next novel, In Fidelity...
...premium or vice versa. For example, if you have a $200,000 home in Florida with a 2% deductible, your annual premium is $2,372. Take a 5% deductible, and you save more than $200 annually on the premium. If disaster strikes, though, you're $10,000 out of pocket versus...