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...series of dispatches from “Bubb Rubb & Lil’ Sis,” the mob’s anonymous masterminds, sent over the mailing list beginning mid-July outlined the parameters for participation...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hundreds Flock to Coop for Local 'Flash Mob' | 8/1/2003 | See Source »

Investors, however, have felt some back pain. The stock (RUBB) opened on NASDAQ at $5, yet closed last week at $3.75. Revenues through the third quarter ($1.97 million) nearly tripled last year's, but GABR lost $1.62 million. Still, Zanker is plunging ahead, selling franchises that cost between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSAGE FOR THE MASSES | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...RUBB for real? Zanker has felt the entrepreneurial tide turn against him before. He founded the Learning Annex, an adult-education business, but overexpansion and mounting lawsuits led him to sell his stake in a prepackaged bankruptcy in 1991. But competing massage outfits like Healing Hands of New York City are opening up shop, a good sign, says Zanker. "It's a huge market--you know how many backs there are in America? [263,814,032, to be exact]--and we can't possibly do them all." No, but he can sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSAGE FOR THE MASSES | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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