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Bill Fraine, a vice president of the B2B software maker Commerce One, has abandoned snail mail for now. "After Sept. 11, we thought about how to get in touch with people," he says. "Normally we would have used direct mail. But I don't think people are opening their mail." So Fraine decided instead to rely on telemarketing and the Internet. Now sales reps from Commerce One call prospective customers and invite them to log onto a website at a given date and time and join a conference call. After they watch a slide presentation or video clips, they...
...small and coarse-featured. Her very dark top lip slipped slowly—with the wetness of a snail, I thought—over her big white teeth. For the first time I saw that she used powder. It made the black skin matte, and you could see where the powder ended and the shiny skin showed again. I was repelled, ashamed, moved...
...opportunity to determine their status as soon as possible. While it is unfortunate that applicants are in such a hurry for their decisions, instant gratification is the reality of our age. Immediate access to the information online may only eliminate the two or three day “snail mail” waiting period, not the months of anxiety; nonetheless, those days will provide applicants with several important opportunities. Some early applicants wait for a decision before applying in the regular admissions process. The two extra days will give these students extra time to fill out those applications. It will...
...think I'm joking? Well, if one company's vision of the future of online reading is to be believed, folks who eyeball each line with a snail-like finger had better have deep pockets. On Monday Rosetta Books, a major player in the nascent e-book market, announced a "$1 for 10 hours of reading" deal. You pay a buck, download the book, then 10 hours later the text gets all scrambled up. Haven't finished? Tough luck; you have to pay again to unlock it. Right now this is just a trial deal attached to one tome - Agatha...
...been outside Algeria before. Cherchel was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mauretania, restored by Augustus to Cleopatra Selene's husband, Juba II. Another marble rendering of Cleopatra Selene, found near Juba's palace at Cherchel, shows her as a more mature woman, with a heavier face and "snail-shell" curls around her forehead...