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STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Buying in bulk used to mean hauling a case of toilet paper home from a warehouse club. Now consumers can pool their orders online for "power buys" at www.mercata.com This Web retailer sells consumer electronics, sporting goods, housewares and appliances around the clock. But each day select items are put up for group sale at an initial price--say, $40 for a radio. The more buyers who join the sale by day's end, the lower the price will go. All buyers get the lowest price offered...
Eventually, though, he may become disabled in some way. And at that point, he'll need to live in a place not only where someone else rakes the leaves but also where someone takes physical care of him, perhaps around the clock. The choices then will be straightforward: he can enter a nursing home; he can move in with my family or my brother's and hire nursing and household care (since we work full-time); or he can stay in his house and do the same...
Echoes of the site's former uses--it was built in the 19th century for a textile printer and then became the home of an electric firm--ring through the place in deeper chords than the sound installation that mimics the tones of the old clock tower. One 18-ft.-high-ceilinged room was used to generate lightning to test the capacitors the electric firm made. Now video artist Tony Oursler has annexed that space for a talking-light-bulb piece. "We have yet to have an artist who comes here who doesn't have a big idea," says Thompson...
Neil Rudenstine will sit in his Mass. Halloffice with a distressed student, unconscious ofthe ticking of the large grandfather clock,playing a counseling role that is perhaps betterhandled by a College administrator. He works lateinto the night handwriting letters--oftenthank-you notes--to acquaintances and colleagues...
...Clock tower of Memorial Hall destroyed in fire...