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...your child could be in trouble too, so consider informing hotel staff members that you're the only adult in your party. Make sure your child carries some kind of ID. Your business card with emergency contact numbers scribbled on it will suffice. Tuck it into your child's pocket or shoe so strangers can't see her name...
Another firm raking in cash from the tech downturn is Overstock.com based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Overstock is the world's first purely e-tail site to break even, a feat achieved after burning through just $27 million in venture capital--pocket change in Silicon Valley. Overstock, which buys surplus tech products at liquidation prices and sells them to consumers at an average 60% off the retail price, is best known as a "vulture" site, raking over the bones of deceased dotcoms and snapping up $44 million of their equipment...
...line to the U.S. belongs to Martin Castano. His dented Chevy pickup, loaded with pinatas shaped like Betty Boop and Winnie the Pooh, is dwarfed next to a semi carrying 15 tons of yellow bulldozer claws. Castano usually makes the trip twice a day and can pocket $150 each time. But because it would be easy to stuff marijuana inside Betty or Winnie, he is always waved over for inspection. Castano says he trusts his 12 employees to stay away from the drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week, and that makes them easy marks...
...President Bush is seen by the Europeans as being in the pocket of the energy lobby, and unless he's seen to take a step back from those interests, he's not going to be very convincing to the Europeans...
...over the St. Croix River. "There I explained that the 'surprise date' I'd been talking about was going to extend far past dinner that evening, and asked her to marry me. As I was proposing, and building up to the big finish, I was fumbling around in my pocket looking for the ring, and almost dropped it into the icy depths of the St. Croix...