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Small retailers have been pushed clear off the field at MSN Shopping. The site's searchable database includes only products of 160 top-tier merchants, such as Dell and Sharper Image. Though MSN has experimented with revenue-sharing deals, it prefers dollars for clicks because of the greater predictability of the revenue, says Jim Barr, MSN Shopping's general manager. A typical deal might generate 25[cents] per click for a guaranteed 8 million clicks a year, or $2 million from a single merchant. Similarly, AOL's shopping area will expose you to only about 250 merchants, mainly leaders...
Sitting comfortably in the upper tier of the FleetCenter last week, I waited, hot dog in hand, for the start of the Celtics game. Just another mid-winter contest in the interminably drawn-out NBA season, against a visiting Houston Rockets team that does not have a particular rivalry with the Celts or Bostonians in general...
Even as searchers scoured much of the southern tier of the country for remains of the ship (and a smaller, more sacred swatch for remains of the crew), fresh theories and new clues abounded. Images of Columbia's demise were sent in by amateur videotapers, and reports of evidence were phoned in by freelance debris hunters. Part of the leading edge of one wing turned up near Fort Worth, Texas, while a rear wing section was examined in the eastern part of the state, near Nacogdoches. Researchers dug up old NASA memos warning of just the kind of accident that...
...Lawrence has shown it can beat some of the top tier teams but not the elite. St. Lawrence has wins over No. 4 Dartmouth and No. 5 New Hampshire, but was beaten handily by No. 3 Minnesota...
...plan has a more central, perhaps more plausible goal than getting Saddam to slink away. It involves persuading the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution granting amnesty to Iraqi officials who agree to cooperate with the U.N. The idea is that this would separate Saddam and the top tier of the ruling Baath Party from others in the regime who might be persuaded to save themselves and their country by overthrowing Saddam. The resolution would be designed to open a window just before a U.S. invasion began so that an Arab delegation would have a chance to direct...