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...Data Corp. expects annual DVD-recorder sales in the U.S. to reach 10 million by 2006. The latest offerings still aren't cheap; the least expensive brand-name model costs $500. And because Hollywood copy-protects its movies, you can't use these machines to duplicate the discs you rent from Blockbuster. (Computers with DVD burners are a different story, at least for now, thanks to a DVD-ripping program that has so far survived legal challenge...
...than $70 on typical city center-hotel rates). If you belong to the Beijing Riviera Country Club, then you can rest your head at the swanky Raffles Town Club in Singapore, where a suite with its own pool starts from $185. Meanwhile, members of the Tokyo British Club can rent low rise-bungalow accommodation at the leafy United Services Recreation Club in Hong Kong from just...
Some expectant couples rent motel rooms in Sierra Vista for when their babies are due. But some who can't afford a room or whose timing is off end up with the baby arriving in the middle of the night while they're racing along the highway, according to Copper Queen Hospital CEO James Dickson. The intersection of Highways 80 and 90 is listed as the place of birth on the certificate of a baby girl born in the front passenger seat of a car where those highways cross. Women lacking transportation, a common problem in this working-poor area...
...barrel of a revolver. Specific models, sold under brand names like Bling Image and AutoCouture, can race in and out of fashion in as little as six months. "People want big chrome one week, silver the next," Don Sabino says of the 10,000 customers at his Rent-A-Wheel chain in the southwestern U.S. But in the oversexed world of auto enthusiasts, size seems to matter most. Five years ago, when 15-in. wheels were the norm for SUVs, custom-wheel makers started cranking out 20-inchers, which today are dwarfed by 22-, 24- and even 26-in. rims...
...heavens opened,” she says. “It cleared the rent in a week. I prayed a lot for it. That was God’s way of taking me out of this business...