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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thirteen-year-old Elisabeth Laskey of Gray, Me., gets $25 a month deposited into her iCanBuy account in lieu of an allowance. So far Elisabeth has bought some CDs, pencils and shirts. "I've only been on for a couple months, so I don't have much money saved yet," Elisabeth says. "But I'm thinking about saving some more and maybe donating some to charity." Elisabeth has learned one major financial lesson from her online shopping account: "Once it's in there, it's my money, and I get to decide what I want to do with it. That...
...soften stories with a harder edge and to reposition the tabloids as rivals, for both readers and advertisers, of mainstream publications like People (which, like Time, is published by Time Inc.). Casual headline scanners in grocery check-out lines may not have noticed the difference yet, but Pecker claims it exists. "If there's a Hollywood scandal, the investigative portion will be done by the National Enquirer. The impact on celebrities, on their careers, that will be done by the Star...
...most overused word of the year. Yet for some reason--our brain circuitry's own Y2K bug perhaps--millennium is also the most shamelessly misspelled one. In 1999, newspaper and magazine editors in America and Britain omitted the second n a full 4,709 times. There's Elizabeth Arden's new Millenium Energist Revitalizing Emulsion; New York City's Millenium Hilton Hotel; and later this month, a New Year's Eve scene from the NBC movie Y2K, above. A concierge at the Millenium Hilton offers an explanation: "We did it to have originality--for the creativity...
...beach, no mountains, no shopping, no regional cuisine. There's absolutely nothing within walking distance, and no connections to other destinations. Yet it may soon become the human race's most exclusive - and expensive - vacation spot. Where in the world is this? Try out of this world: This weekend, at a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the privately held International Space Station, a consortium of international companies unveiled a proposal to add hotel suites to the orbiting facility...
...house vacationing civilians. It suddenly appears that the trillions the U.S. sank into its space program in the '80s may have been more than simply hubris, creating an infrastructure that will allow it to corner the potentially lucrative private market for space travel in the 21st century. No word yet on the publishing date for the Lonely Galaxy Guide...