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...digital world? The artists are sticking with it--at least the ones who lately have been making some galleries look like Circuit City, full of dot-matrix screens and wall-mounted monitors. Remember when videotape was the hot new medium? Compared with CD-ROM art and screen-saver art, with website artworks or virtual-reality goggles, videotape is starting to look quaint, even primordial. Like charcoal...
...Last month 13 consumer groups jointly denounced the "bank saver" decree, which would have cost lenders only about $1.2 billion. "We will take the government to court over this," says Elio Lannutti, chairman of Adusbef, one of the most aggressive consumer groups. "Banks must give back the money, and it must be clear they broke the law." Lannutti argues that Fazio is overstating the cost of returning cash to borrowers, dismissing the $24 billion figure as "psychological terrorism...
...sites, travelocity.com and expedia.com, has further paved the way for myriad other websites that allow users to search for low plane fares in any number of ways. Sites such as priceline.com even allow consumers to bid for surplus seats, while most of the major airlines sell bargain basement "e-saver" fares through their websites and e-mail databases...
...suburban anonymity. Even FBI psycho profilers were stymied, offering only that the perpetrator was probably a white male age 20 to 40. When a suspect was finally arrested, hookers recalled him as a regular, paying cash several times a month for a $28.95 room at the Spokane Budget Saver Motel. "He was a good trick," says Everson. "He was never weird. The women were happy to see him coming. Now they're asking, 'Why didn't he kill...
...with a cap-gains tax totaling $55,000 on their profit of $275,000. If they hold until death, though, their heirs will get the stock at the stepped-up basis of $300,000. They could turn around and sell, and owe no cap-gains tax. This money saver is an overriding motivator for many parents who choose not to sell, possibly forgoing a better end of their life. Under the bill, in some cases, that sacrifice would be for naught...