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...Every semester many people decide not to "rededicate," or shell out the $125 fee that keeps membership active. But this semester seems to be worse than in the past. A female junior who decided not to pay her bill this semester said she based her decision on the recent changes in the club. "There were no more parties in the Pudding. It's just different," she said. "If I had friends in it, I could see them outside. So we decided together to save the money." The woman who decided to retain her membership said the biggest clue...
...will the project fly? There are doubts about just how many people would be prepared to shell out 20 big ones for a vacation aboard a creaky vessel that has been plagued by air leaks, electrical failures, fires and more. And then there are the economics. "Although these investors would like to make a breakthrough in commercializing manned space travel, it's not clear that the project could generate sufficient revenue to make it viable," says TIME space correspondent Jeff Kluger. "Profitability comes from volume, and there's only one Mir. Right now the profits for the private sector...
Rather than shell out $60,000 to make a celluloid print of the movie so they could show it on theater projectors, Avalos and Weiler partnered with satellite companies to retrofit theaters in five cities to project the movie digitally--from hard drive straight to the big screen. That stunt made Avalos and Weiler, who live on a 200-acre sod farm in rural Pennsylvania, the first to project a movie digitally in movie houses. They became instant icons of the film-geek crowd. They also became pretty rich. Through video rentals and sales--and distribution in 20 countries...
...Saldana while they worked with a supervisor on getting their stories straight. Saldana ended up bleeding to death. In another case, Perez says, police shot at New Year's celebrators who were firing guns into the air at midnight. He says at first he helped pick up the officers' shell casings so they could deny having fired their weapons. When it turned out that two men had been shot, the police concocted a story: that the injured men had been aiming their guns at the police...
...really, who cares? Ten minutes into the show, JENNIFER LOPEZ took the stage wearing a Versace palm-print silk chiffon dress, and the seen-it-all industry crowd at Los Angeles' Staples Center audibly gasped. All that stood between her front and a nationwide television audience was a shell brooch and a touch of cosmetic glue. Said blushing co-presenter David Duchovny: "This is the first time in five years I am sure nobody is looking at me." After Lopez left the stage, unusually tart hostess Rosie O'Donnell snarled, "It's nice to see Jennifer in a classy little...