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...Seniors seem comfortable with purchasing online," says Joe Barone, whose Philadelphia firm VirTu Inc. built Independence Blue Cross a website www.site65.com with information about Medicare-insurance products and services. In the coming months, advertising and shopping will increase on the Net, notes Regina Joseph, senior analyst at New York City's Jupiter Communications. Total online shopping revenues for 1998 are projected at $5.8 billion, with advertising revenues expected to rise to $1.9 billion. In March, new-media phenom Yahoo launched Yahoo Seniors' Guide www.seniors.yahoo.com) an Internet resource with advertisers and a gateway to 13 areas of popular interest, including finance...
There he had no rivals and no clergy breathing censoriously down the back of his neck. Federico II Gonzaga's court was a secular one; not even his tamest eulogists could have called the Duke pious. He was, however, brave, generous, greedy, obsessed with his own virtu (which meant prowess, not virtue) and determined to go down in history for his martial skills, his classical learning and his devotion to all vertical and horizontal forms of the chase. In Giulio, this son of Isabella d'Este found a court artist whose libidinousness and intelligence fit his own. Both men moved...
...distorted by subsidies, hoarding and black-market speculation. But the price hikes have helped to raise the cost of living 108% over the past year. All-night queues in front of butcher shops have largely disap peared, because many people cannot afford to buy meat at the new prices. Virtu ally all necessities are rationed: one bar of soap, a half-liter of vodka and 3 lbs. of sugar per person per month. This fall, pre schoolers will be allotted one pencil, one eraser and one paintbrush for the entire year...
...would not have. Legally speaking, though, Bok might be obliged to arrest and press charges against student trespassers. The fact that he didn't attests to his personal morality. It also testifies to his pragmatism; he had learned the lessons of 1969 well. To Bok, the university's virtue is inevitably bound up with Machiavelli's concept of virtu: the employment of prudence in the service of all specific ends. His ethics and ethos are relativist...
...fight against terrorism is far from over. Since the coup, 1,700 leftist guerrillas and 124 soldiers and police have died in what the military calls "the dirty war." The government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme...