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...sand-cliff deck) and a smaller one (the 900-sq.-ft., 40-ton tatami deck) that can simultaneously lift, rotate and tilt. Thus the actors must perform many of their maneuvers while the earth is literally moving under their feet. (If they fall off, there's a 60-ft. drop out of sight and onto an airbag.) Other scenes occur in midair, with the actors on wires or clinging to poles. That lends an antigravitational buoyancy to an artistic enterprise that revels in breaking all the rules about what technology can achieve and the human body can endure...
...services. Yet there remain ample reasons for doubt. For one thing, Carp has promised a pretty picture: $16 billion in revenues by 2006, up from $13.5 billion last year, with more than half of that coming from its digital endeavors. He also says the company's profit margin will drop from roughly 40% to 30%--and no further--and serve up $3 in earnings per share, vs. last year's operational EPS of $2.62. To longtime Kodak watchers, this optimism smacks of old times: Kodak trumpeted its digital aspirations nine years ago--and failed to deliver, unable to wean itself...
...could count on strong public support seem to be slipping away as well. According to a poll conducted by the Asahi newspaper, Koizumi's approval rating has fallen to 33%, the lowest since he took office nearly four years ago. No single event seems to have triggered the drop-off; instead, a number of slow-burning factors have quietly eroded his support, which ran as high as 84% shortly after he became Prime Minister and which still hovered in the 40s for much of last year. The poll shows a particularly strong revolt among unaffiliated voters and women, formerly...
...Auctioning4u - a two-year-old London company that did it all for her. The firm got her a $630 selling price, and took just over $200 of that for itself. Welcome to the latest in eBay piggyback businesses. Fostered by eBay's breakneck growth in the U.S., leading independent drop-off businesses - offering to collect unwanted items through a network of store locations and trade them on eBay for a share of the sale price - are now shipping as many as 5,000 items per week in the U.S. And with eBay business outside of the U.S. now soaring - international...
...smaller Social Security checks. For instance, according to a 2002 analysis by the chief actuary's office at Social Security, a 38-year-old earning $35,000 would now expect to receive $1,343 a month when she retires at 65, but with indexing to inflation, that benefit would drop 18.2%, meaning she would get $1,099. Given the existing system's long-term funding challenges, of course, that kind of cut could happen anyway. -With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington