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While some may scour campus for more popular items like the "VCR and couch at a cheap price" that Ariel B. Osceola '00 craves, students can also find less-common items on sale...
...derivatives to balance his or her need for pesos and yen, wealth accounts will precisely balance your demand for investment and consumption. Says Christos Cotsakos, CEO of online brokerage group E*Trade: "The wired household is the ultimate bank." Your checking deposits, for instance, might be programmed to scour an electronic Web looking for interest-bearing investments overnight while you sleep. If a Turkish real estate developer needs to use the money for a few hours while you doze (and is willing to pay you for the privilege), your wealth account will be smart enough to decide if that...
Help! Somebody call the exorcist! It seems that Starr is possessed by Joseph McCarthy's malevolent spirit. Come election time, the political parties had better scour the countryside for monasteries. Only a monk with an interest in politics will do as a candidate. GERA KORTE Kapaa, Hawaii...
Hersh opens the book with a description of Robert Kennedy, his brother's keeper, in the first hours after the President's assassination, ordering someone to scour the White House for incriminating files and secret tape recordings before they fall into the hands of Lyndon Johnson. What does he want to keep secret? In Hersh's book, it's Jack's long-rumored first marriage, the Mob contacts that helped him steal the 1960 election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader...
Suppose, for example, you wanted to start a site called recipe.com that would let users scour the Web for that perfect low-cal poultry dish for 12. Any search engine can link you to 100,000 sites that contain the word recipe, and to 10,000 more that also mention low-calorie and chicken. But there's no easy way--short of looking at every one of those sites--to guide your customers to the recipe that's right for them. HTML simply lacks the software muscle to handle the business world's endless and complex transactions. "I call...