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...places to buy a drink "within the confines of the Olympic area"--twice as many places as in the two previous Winter Olympics venues of Lillehammer and Nagano combined, he says. And the clean, crime-free, wholesome society envisioned by the founders of the Mormon church produces spike-haired, nihilistic punks (depicted in the movie SLC Punk!), black-clad goths and the highest rate of Prozac consumption in the country. Despite the strong antipathy of the Mormon church to homosexuality, Salt Lake City has an internationally known lesbian underground scene...
...getting caught just part of the plan? What better way to distinguish themselves from all the other reckless, enterprising socialites than to propel themselves into the national spotlight? Maybe this was why they didn’t pause to launder their money, or to explain the origins of the spike in their spending cash. (Those wealthy enough to throw the parties and support the habits that they did usually do not dally their time working at Abercrombie...
...places to buy a drink "within the confines of the Olympic area"-twice as many places as in the two previous Winter Olympics venues of Lillehammer and Nagano combined, he says. And the clean, crime-free, wholesome society envisioned by the founders of the Mormon church produces spike-haired, nihilistic punks (depicted in the movie SLC Punk!), black-clad goths and the highest rate of Prozac consumption in the country. Despite the strong antipathy of the Mormon church to homosexuality, Salt Lake City has an internationally known lesbian underground scene...
...demand for e-mail lists," says Purdue University marketing professor Jon Anton. His surveys found that the cost of these lists, which had been sinking early last year, shot up 20% during the month following the start of the anthrax scare. Telemarketers, he says, are seeing a similar spike in business...
Information technology managers at 150 U.S. companies reported a spike in printing after they opened access to their firms' data networks, according to The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper. Long e-mail messages and attachments tend to be printed, causing about a 40% jump in paper consumption when an office first gets e-mail. But e-mail also cuts down on workers' use of expensive overnight mail and courier services...