Word: tempts
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...check to finance his tattoo parlor, you know what I mean. But angel investing has come a long way in recent years, enabling well-heeled and business-savvy investors to get a meaningful stake on the ground floor of a variety of promising start-ups. Although Cousin Lou may tempt you with free tattoos (think of the possibilities), you can get stakes in a dozen or so new companies vetted for their potential by investing $75,000 to $150,000 in an angel fund...
...even a new Electric Punk mini-bike, at right, in the family. Each model runs for approximately 30 min. between charges--which take about 6 hours--and has a surprisingly quiet motor. Just make sure the kids wear a helmet, since these zippy roadsters (from $119 to $179) may tempt them to try more daring feats than ever...
...week. Like most of those attending the European summits with Bush - in Krakow, St. Petersburg, and at the G-8 in Evian - the Americans were playing down differences and talking up the need for greater transatlantic cooperation. Washington's goal: to allay European fears that victory in Iraq will tempt the U.S. to run roughshod over world opinion. "It isn't the power of the U.S. that needs to be checked," cooed Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, "It's the power of the U.S. that needs to work cooperatively with others who share the same values to achieve...
...Saudi bombings are a reminder that al-Qaeda is very much alive after 18 months of the war on terror. But while an occasional attempt to mount a spectacular attack on the U.S. mainland remains a real danger, changed circumstances and opportunities may tempt the network to focus its efforts in the Arab territories whose "liberation" from U.S. influence remains one of the movement's founding objectives...
...boasts the coldest gin-and-tonics in town. But, admits manager Benoit Jancloes a trifle sheepishly, it currently doesn't have any actual newshounds among its members. "We're mainly for tourists," he says. Discounts for members of its venerable sibling in Phnom Penh, however, are sure to tempt the odd old Asia bore to totter in and lend some authenticity...