Word: worthlessness
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...know, but I can imagine it being at bottom an act of irony, a means of imparting some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away...
...members of the "real world" who wait instead for us to come and find them. And there's no question that the handouts are a lot more enticing--free T-shirts and playing cards are certainly a step up from a fistful of candy and four years' worth of worthless e-mails from a mailing list you just can't seem to shake...
...Yangs' collision course with history continued. The family home in Liuyang was pulled down in the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s: the peasants wanted the wooden beams for their backyard iron smelters, which Mao thought would transform China into an industrial power. Most of the iron was worthless, and the neglect of agriculture led to the worst famine of the century, in which more than 20 million people starved to death. Peiyuan's "first mother"--his father's first wife--died of hunger in 1962, but the twins' mother--the third wife--survived and held together what...
FALSE SECURITY The Federal Trade Commission and six states are nailing companies for bilking consumers out of more than $25 million through worthless credit-card "loss-protection" programs. Federal law already limits consumer loss due to unauthorized charges to $50, but telemarketers are talking up computer hackers and Y2K glitches. Some claim consumer-protection laws have changed, and others pose as credit-card employees who need to "activate" new protection features on your card. Don't give out personal information unless you initiated the contact. To file a complaint, call 877-FTC-HELP...
...their websites and get valuable personal information from the recipients. Web-WorksMarketing.com said its free stock was worth $38.40 a share, which beats the company's gross revenues of $26. Likewise, American Space Corp. distributed shares, although it had no offices, employees or contracts. The investing lesson? Free could equal worthless...