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...taking a toll on Iraq's citizens. While most maintain a remarkable resilience in the face of the suffering, there is also a growing sense of bitterness. Hamid, for instance, used to be a wedding singer and hopes one day to become a kindergarten music teacher; it has been months since we last heard him sing. Iraqis who work for foreign companies, especially American ones, are in double jeopardy--branded as traitors and infidels by terrorist groups and identified as lucrative targets by kidnapping gangs. A year ago, we would have accompanied this article with a picture of our Baghdad...
...Eleven's 5,300 U.S. stores will be enabled by next year, says Rick Updyke, V.P. of business development. And perennially coinless drivers in Coral Gables, Fla., can register online with Toronto-based PayMint and pay the city's 4,600 parking meters by cell phone. Parkers dial a toll-free number, log in, enter their lot number and log out after parking. (Of the current 850 users, 10% have agreed to pay the $7-per-month service fee; the rest pay 25¢ per parking period.) Text messages inform parkers that their time is up, with the option...
...shocking toll mounted, Lincoln turned from commander to commander, looking for the man who would protect Washington from rebel armies and press the Union's biggest advantage: "We have the greater numbers...
...consumers, Mom and Dad may be hooked on home shopping, the hottest concept in television since rock videos hit the tube. The rapidly proliferating shopping programs feature friendly but persistent announcers who promote an array of bargain-priced products and implore viewers to order them (right now!) by calling toll-free numbers. Designed to spur impulse purchases, the programs combine the glitter of a game show, the hard sell of an old Veg-O-Matic commercial and the fervor of a telethon. About 20 home-shopping programs have appeared on the screen, and more are on the way. Home-shopping...
...homes in Florida. After going national in July 1985, the show now reaches more than 10 million cable households over the Home Shopping Network. A rotating crew of 24 hosts with such names as Budget Bob Circosta and Bubblin' Bobbi Ray dangle and demonstrate products, while operators on 400 toll-free lines plug the orders into video-display terminals...