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...Veeck, the son of Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card packs. And he should have replaced the entire lineup...
...problem so far with the pay-per-song model from a business perspective is profits--or the lack thereof. With as much as 70% of each sale going to the record label and the rest eaten up by surprisingly high costs for things like infrastructure and credit-card fees, sales volume must but doesn't yet compensate. "It's not a way to make a lot of money," acknowledges Jobs. No, it's a way to help sell iPods. Apple says sales of the music-storing, high-profit-margin palm-size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after...
...that's precisely what freaks privacy advocates like Katherine Albrecht, founder of New Hampshire--based CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering). In Albrecht's nightmare, her grocer scans her credit card--at the bottom of her purse--and tracks her around the store recording her selections. Police come knocking after tracing an RFID-tagged soda can found at a crime scene to her credit card. While RFID certainly has the potential to be the most invasive consumer technology ever, supporters--consumers themselves, after all--are working on safeguards, such as "kill codes" for tags after checkout. "Privacy mavens...
...middle-school teacher, he as an insurance claims adjuster--to support their two girls, ages 6 and 9. When the Clarks bought their four-bedroom house in Battle Creek six years ago, they put 20% down to get the best interest rate. They have no credit-card debt, economize every way they can--yet can't escape the feeling that they are just a pink slip away from financial disaster. "If Tom lost his job, we'd be hurting fast," says Mary. "I guess it would mean moving in with the folks...
URI’s Anthony Ward-Smith received a red card with just 14 seconds remaining for his vicious slide tackle on George...