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...their early work seems to be paying off--the Boston division of Kozmo.com just recently logged it one-millionth customer since it opened shop in August...
...other company combines customer rewards with micropayments in quite the way Beenz.com does, and no other company is aiming quite so high. Before the year is out, Letts plans to distribute beenz on cell phones and on MasterCard-backed Mondex smart cards. Beenz.com recently logged its 15 millionth beenz transaction, and Letts predicts--"without a shadow of a doubt"--that this year the company will sign up its 5 millionth customer. By then, who knows how much a hill of beenz might be worth...
...hopes were deflated by Dan Wertheimer, head of the SETI project, who advised me not to hold my breath. The picture on my screen, it turns out, represents a mere 107 sec. of data from 1 millionth of the night sky. My chances of winning the galactic lottery are about 1 in 100 million--assuming there is any prize...
...monument to the one-millionth fire hydrant produced by the Mueller Co., which makes nearly half the national supply...
Unfortunately, there are plenty of reasons. To start with, the substances are available only in tiny quantities at this point. When scientists first started making endostatin, it took 200 qt. of mouse urine to obtain less than a millionth of an ounce. Turning the compounds out in people-size doses will require entirely different manufacturing techniques. EntreMed claims it now has a way to make lots of endostatin, using yeast cells as tiny factories; angiostatin is proving a lot tougher to mass-produce...