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...then there is Hotwire, and other competitors are sure to follow. Ironically, the very spread of this sort of business model could create Priceline's biggest challenge. With ever faster, always-on gizmos connected to the Web, we will all have access to ever more information. And if we all know the lowest accepted bid for a certain flight or box of cereal, then won't that bid become the de facto price? Priceline's revolution would then have led us right back to where it began: the world of fixed prices...
...called the bluff of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who has been moving steadily in the direction of seceding. Belgrade has now signaled clearly that it's willing to risk violent confrontation to keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic, and the Serb leader would happily send in his army to back them up in a showdown with Djukanovic. That would force NATO to either intervene or stand back and watch Belgrade's tanks roll...
...Speedo, Nike, Adidas and Tyr, are believed to improve speed. That didn't stop USA Swimming, the sport's national governing body, from banning them last week from the U.S. Olympic trials in August. It was concerned that the 1,200 or so competitors did not have equal access to the suits...
Researchers hope to create an Internet-based interface that is connected to a robotic warehousing system for automated access to 200,000 clones...
...interestingly, many pill opponents don't premise their concerns on women's health; rather, they take the view that any further infiltration could lead to increased teenage access to the pill, which, the argument goes, would lead to increased rates of sexual activity. The fact that teens are having sex already and that the pill would simply ensure they wouldn't get pregnant seems to be lost. But that's probably to be expected...