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That led the Canadian student to quit his summer job at IBM and build Fairtunes fairtunes.com) a website where you can send money to your favorite artists in payment for music downloads. Enter your credit-card details, type in how much you want to send, and Fairtunes will cut checks and track down artists anywhere in the world on your behalf (most artists, like Bjork, cash them; some, like Ani DiFranco, ask for them to be redirected to charity; a few, like U2, ignore the checks altogether...
Smart people, says a woman I will call Layla, who quit her $2-a-month office job because it wasn't worth getting up in the morning, know they have to go. Smart people, she says, want to live. Layla has a Malaysian-cloned computer in her house, paid for by her brother in Florida. In the past year, Iraqis have been permitted to buy up-to-date computers if they have the cash. Layla can e-mail her brother, but she can't surf the Net: ordinary citizens are not allowed...
...frying. The last thing we need is to burden our hearts--not to mention our waistlines--with more of the artery-clogging fat found in any fried food. But there are already plenty of things you can do to reduce your risk of cancer, starting with a vow to quit (or not start) smoking. "You get more acrylamide from smoking than you do from food," says Lois Gold, director of the Carcinogenic Potency Project at the University of California, Berkeley. You should also eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, go easy on red meat...
...PATTY STONESIFER Microsoft's top female exec quit her "all-absorbing" career in 1997 for more time with her teenagers. With her stock options, Stonesifer, now 46, can afford to kick back; today she co-chairs Bill Gates' charitable foundation...
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