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...unmarked bills. The city streets are awash with neon in candy pink and pistachio green, and each streetlight is ringed by a delicate nimbus suggesting warm, humid tropical air. The kicker is the painfully authentic all-1980s sound track (which will be released by Sony Music as a seven-CD set). Buy this game, and you will Wang Chung tonight...
...that speed and convenience, there are trade-offs: the print quality isn't quite so good as at most professional photo labs, and your negatives are destroyed in the process. But you get a CD that contains digital images of your photos. If all you want is to develop the film and take the CD, the cost is about $5.95. Each 4-by-6 print costs about 39¢. So 24 prints and the CD will run about $15--pretty much what you would pay for digital or traditional developing...
...need for heightened database security has been exposed repeatedly, thanks to high-profile thefts of sensitive information. These include the raiding of CD Universe's customer credit-card database in 2000 or the pilfering that year of patients' records from the University of Washington Medical Center. Visa and MasterCard have released guidelines to member banks and online merchants on measures each credit-card company expects them to take to protect card numbers. Congress, meanwhile, has passed laws demanding that financial institutions and health-care companies protect customer information...
...Elements tapped Chen, who grew up speaking English and is one-eighth Portuguese, because she cuts an international figure, says company vice president Vienna Wood. Corporate sponsors prefer their hired mouthpieces to be as cosmopolitan as they are recognizable. Besides, the Hong Kong market is small and getting smaller; CD sales have plunged by nearly 60% since 1996 to $96.6 million last year. Inevitably, mainland China is seen by entertainment companies as increasingly important, so record companies want artists with cross-cultural appeal. It's no accident that Chen's contract-signing was announced?with great fanfare and at great...
These are the things you see only later: that they were trying to create a cocoon of childhood for us, long after our peers were clicking through math enrichment CD-ROMs and beefing up their test-taking skills. That despite the practical problems of such undertakings, creating a viable alternative to the American education system is a courageous...