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...waistline. They set off jauntily, she getting a job busing tables, he doing manual labor. One ant-infested apartment and many rice-and-beans dinners later, they're fighting over everything from bus money to splurging on a dollar movie. They scrimp, but a couple of minor illnesses wipe out their savings. "It's a life-size game of Chutes and Ladders," says Spurlock. "Somebody gets sick, and Daddy's going down, down, down...
...cannot wipe out piracy. But you can minimize its bottom-line impact. Just as music companies, rightly or wrongly, made peace with MP3 file-sharing services like Napster, so must manufacturers from the U.S. heartland learn strategies for coping?by developing new revenue models that emphasize service offerings around intellectual property. Such models may include lowered pricing for a developing market; universal licensing schemes to sell music, films, games and software on a subscription basis; or emphasizing revenues that flow from service and support rather than product, a model that has been successfully exploited by the Linux community...
Although she’s let Orange-Solve, Dorm Crew’s chosen multipurpose de-greaser, soak in the walls, she points out that there is not a lot of grime in this particular bathroom to wipe away from the shower walls...
...Bush says Kim has failed to keep a promise to freeze North Korea's nuclear program. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman replies that America's new President is "worrying about others when he can't wipe his own nose...
Questions of dual loyalty aside, Oppenheimer willingly agreed to direct the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb in 1942. Edward Teller suggested that such a device might ignite the hydrogen in the atmosphere and wipe out mankind. But Oppenheimer dismissed Teller’s calculations...