Word: video
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...their lists of last chances aren't really their last chances after all. It is a little-known fact that a small fee will get you into Widener Library's stacks as a College alum, so that the legendary tryst still awaits those who missed their chance. The videos available in College libraries, despite seniors' nostalgia, are not "free" but rather part of an annual $30,000 cover charge, which is somewhat more expensive than membership at most video-carrying public libraries in America. Boston and its tourist attractions aren't going anywhere...
...voyeuristic as Internet sex sites, more addictive than video games and a lot easier to play--and you can win big money! It's online investing, one of the hottest destinations in cyberspace. Ask Ardavan Arianpour of San Diego, Calif., who recently turned $1,000 into $5,000 through point-and-click trading. Arianpour is his own broker, trading as often as he likes and poring over online news, quotes and stock charts. "I just love researching and making money," says Arianpour, who has been piling up profits for retirement. That's still a long way off, though, because...
...swat this photogenic Butterfly off her tree. It has disrupted her sleep with air horns and floodlights, placed 24-hour guards around the tree in an aborted effort to cut off supplies from her support team, and sent in chain saws and helicopters to harvest around her. On a video distributed by Earth First, helicopter blades are shown churning the branches of Butterfly's aerie, as a hard hat shouts from below, "Get ready for a bad hair...
...Gummo and received mixed reviews for his new book, A Crackup at the Race Riots. On the wholesome-to-jaded spectrum of American artistic endeavor, his work is as far from Culkin's as one could go. But he may have persuaded the young millionaire to appear in a video for Sonic Youth. The deal ain't over until Kim Gordon sings, but it could mark Culkin's first step into adult roles. Or at least keep his agent happy...
Talk about an emerging market... Thousands of Chinese are spending $10 a copy on a video of premier Zhu Rongji?s first press conference. The spectacle of a Chinese leader in an unscripted interaction with the media was so unusual in a nation dulled by broadcasts of anodyne speeches that an enterprising TV executive saw the opportunity and went with it. Sample of the wisecracking premier?s best-selling performance: ?Yesterday I saw my picture on the cover of the latest issue of TIME, which seemed to be better-looking than the one on the cover of Newsweek...