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...last. The site promises to remove you from direct-mail and telemarketing lists (but, sadly, not those of e-mail spammers) at no cost. It can also tell you about good deals on stuff you're really interested in--without revealing your identity (or e-mail address) to the vendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Mar. 22, 1999 | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...where Reilly bought his lute string, is a good place to lunch. The cafe's player piano will entertain small fry, and the food will please the grownups. True Toole aficionados will buy a hot dog on the street in homage to Reilly's brief, catastrophic career as a vendor of frankfurters made of "rubber, cereal, tripe. Who knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: New Orleans By the Book | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

That's just the sort of killer instinct Hollywood loves: an unerring commercial sense at the price of a street vendor's Rolex. Time will tell if Ritchie is the real goods. But as LS&2SB proves, he can blast out 107 minutes of hard, dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond Pulp Affliction | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Other doctors are not so squeamish. A Manhattan resident was startled last year when her gynecologist handed her a catalog of nutritional supplements (complete with the physician's vendor number) as part of her annual checkup. "Patients in a doctor's office are in a particularly vulnerable situation," says Dr. John Lantos, a medical ethicist at the University of Chicago. They might feel pressured to buy the products just to please their physician. Wouldn't it be less of a conflict of interest, he wonders, only half in jest, if doctors ran a fast-food restaurant in the lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bleak Days For Doctors | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...impoverished country like India, Hari goes to the roadside vendor, pays more money for fewer vegetables because there simply aren't enough to go around, returns to his shanty and puts them on the makeshift clay oven which uses cowdung cakes for fuel, has the oven blow up on him, salvages the remnants, eats them and promptly falls sick since the vegetables were rotten in the first place due to poor quality controls in agricultural production and no food packaging industry to speak...

Author: By Kaustuv Sen, | Title: In Defense of Business Careers | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

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