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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AFTER HOURS Talk about bad market timing. Just as SEC chairman Arthur Levitt was warning last week about the dangers of online trading, Instinet--the network that lets brokerages and mutual funds trade stocks after the closing bell--said it would soon afford retail investors the same privilege. Before long, sleep-deprived traders in their pajamas should be clicking trades through cyberspace all night long, potentially saving money by having their trades executed faster. Retail investors will still route their trades to Instinet through brokers--online and otherwise--but they'll be able to react to late-breaking news. Both...
JENNY PARILLA, Lake Forest, Calif. AGE: 18 RANK: No. 1 in U.S., No. 15 in world HEIGHT OF JUMP: about 20 ft. AIR TIME: about 2 sec. BEST TRICK: 2 1/2 twisting double flip...
...WANT MY MTV Well, you can have it. The World Wildlife Fund has teamed up with MTV to provide 60-sec. videos aimed at inspiring viewers to environmental heroism. Also worth a look are the video Earth Reports, viewable with the Vivo or VDO plug-ins. Go to www.panda.org and click on "Video Library...
...sec. Duration of commercials in the average hour of prime-time television in 1998, up 25 sec. from...
...sec. Duration of commercials per hour of ABC's sitcom Sports Night, a prime-time record...