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Karen Young knows exactly when the bubble wrap took over. it was the day an 18-wheeler pulled up to her small-town Indiana home and unloaded a trailerload of the stuff. Bubble wrap filled her living room, gobbled up the hall and invaded her porch. 'The neighbors had no idea what was going on,' she says, laughing. They know now. Today Young presides over her own company, ShippingSupply.com, and all that bubble wrap is now in a warehouse...
...Young's niche is quirky but lucrative: selling bubble wrap over eBay, largely to other eBay sellers, who use it to wrap their own items for shipping. That Young supports herself through an eBay business is not unusual; an estimated 75,000 Americans do. But her rise illustrates just how powerful eBay's 22 million-user platform can be for aspiring entrepreneurs...
...week?she started looking for ways to cut costs and increase profit margins. One expense jumped out: the cost of shipping supplies that she was buying at her nearby Staples. She decided to go directly to the manufacturer to order bubble bags, self-sealing bags made of bubble wrap that she used to pack items...
Outdoor Resorts is, well, a motor-home camp. Not a trailer park, though, so banish those images of downtrodden migrants from The Grapes of Wrath, of clotheslines tied to dented and dusty vans, scruffy patches of grass and malodorous toilets. That's not Indio. The 424 campsites wrap around a golf course. At the center of the complex is a clubhouse with an Olympic-size swimming pool, four tennis courts and a health spa with masseuse. Gardeners tend a cheerful landscape of date palms, bougainvillea, hibiscus and petunias...
...they were in a good mood. The debate was unscripted, a reminder of how the place operated in the freewheeling days when Senators actually used the brass spittoons under the antique desks. Such spontaneity is rare under Majority Leader Trent Lott, who does his best to precook and shrink-wrap bills before they reach the floor. But in this debate, neither side knew in advance what amendments the other was putting forward, and no one knew how most of the votes would come out. "I couldn't tell you today whether [an amendment] is going to get 20 votes...