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...many of eBay's 125 million users around the world, there's nothing simpler than selling stuff via the online auction site and then shipping it out. But not for all of them. "It seems like a pain in the neck," says Rosalie Labovitch, a fashion consultant from West London, who wanted to sell a cashmere dressing gown but didn't want to deal with the nuts and bolts of the process. "I lead a very busy life. I just want to get rid." With no time to write a blurb and take digital photos of the gown, submit them...
...identical scene appears two years later in Secret Service of the Air, the first in Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft series.) Wong turns globe-trotting sleuth to learn the identity of the smugglers' Mr. Big (who turns out to be a Mrs.) and is nearly gang-raped on slave ship of illegal immigrants. When four guys fight in a dispute over her honor, she stands by, paralyzed. Scriptwriters, who didn't have trouble dreaming up cool things for her to do when she was a baddie, usually made her passive as a goodie...
Analysts question whether Chávez can profitably ship oil all the way to Asia, and Venezuelan officials insist that U.S. supplies will remain steady even if he does. But given Chávez's anti-Bush fervor--and the leverage that sky-high oil prices afford him--Washington is nonetheless starting to worry that the flow of Venezuelan oil might shrink significantly by the end of this decade. Indiana Senator Richard Lugar has asked the Government Accountability Office to study what "contingencies are in place to mitigate the effects" of a sharp Venezuelan shortfall, "as this could have serious consequences...
MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN... Abandoning Ship P&O finally pulled the plug on a scheduled 103-day world cruise by its flagship Aurora after the vessel spent 11 days shuttling mostly between the English port city of Southampton and the Isle of Wight while engineers tried to fix an engine problem. The company's offer of a full refund seemed unlikely...
...more than $1 billion in bonuses and benefits this year to induce young Americans to enlist and to entice those already in uniform to extend their service. There are premiums to be pocketed for signing up for certain jobs--infantry, military police, transportation--as well as for agreeing to ship out quickly to train--and then, probably, go to Iraq...