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...Texas who makes $8 an hour at the campus computer lab. But many big-budget Hollywood movies have their North American premieres in his humble off-campus apartment. Like millions of other people, Phung downloads movies for free from the Internet, often before they hit theaters. Phone Booth will fit nicely on his 120-GB hard drive alongside Anger Management, Tears of the Sun and about 125 other films, not to mention more than 2,000 songs. "Basically," he says, "the world is at my fingertips...
Heavin spent nothing on advertising until this year, another way he has bucked the fitness industry's model. And even his franchisees have not spent much--a few hundred dollars a month typically--touting their locations. That's because Curves customers, generally ignored by the 1990s fitness frenzy that raced to reel in the prized 18-to-34 demographic, have spread the word almost evangelically. "What Curves has done is broken through the perception that you have to be fit, coordinated and thin to go to a gym," says Bill Howland, director of research for the International Health, Racquet...
...convenient and cheap to set up and run a franchise, which has inspired thousands of first-time entrepreneurs, many of them women. Angie Holding, 56, of Wichita, Kans., had fought a lifelong battle with fat and watched her three daughters and granddaughter do the same. In 2000 a fit-looking friend pointed her to Curves. "I'd never exercised in my life," Holding says, but she found Curves' atmosphere--women in sweat pants rather than Spandex--appealing. She joined after her first visit. And at $29 a month (fees range from $29 to $49, based on location), it didn...
...loss of $527 million in the first quarter of 2003 - its tenth straight losing quarter. Sales slumped a devastating 30% in the quarter to $3.2 billion, and the company predicted the worldwide market for mobile systems would shrink "more than 10%" in 2003. But Svanberg, looking tanned and fit, managed to simultaneously break the bad news and soothe the markets, in part by announcing a whopping 14,000 new layoffs by 2004. "We remain determined to return to profit during 2003," he said, and Ericsson stock rose 17% that day. "Svanberg is a big positive," says Bengt Mölleryd...
...likely to hug than harangue. But last week when a reporter poked him about the difficulty Republicans in the House and Senate were having reconciling their differences on the president's tax cut package, comfy uncle Denny snapped. "You know what?" he said, "I'm tired of trying to fit the Senate. We have moved in the House. We have done what the president says. We have compromised from 726 down to 550. And if the Senate can't get its work done that...