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...most popular products sold online are what one industry expert calls the ``distance stuff,'' such as books, software, outdoor gear, packaged foods and collectibles, that people can buy without needing to touch them or try them on. These are the same products, in fact, that Americans normally buy through mail-order catalogs, which rang up $57 billion in sales last year. Craig Gugel, senior vice president for interactive media for Ted Bates in New York City, compares the present state of online advertising with the early days of cable TV, just before its rapid growth during the mid-1980s. Says...
...full attention to their driving. People drive while reading, shaving and using car phones. People change lanes without looking or signaling. Hazards can appear in seconds, and full attention is essential to avoiding tragedy. Many so-called accidents are really criminal negligence. People need to have their brains in gear while their cars...
...previous year, on a secret surveillance operation in the Caribbean, he had had to convince a Bahamian cop pointing a machine gun at his chest that he was a tourist, not a drug trafficker. Now he kept his cool as border police searched his car. They never found the gear hidden in secret compartments. ``There were a couple times I thought I was coming home in a body bag,'' recalls...
...standard set of college gear falls into several spheres, depending on your personal taste: "interesting artsy decorations" (German Expressionist prints, obscure band posters, Dali), "I'm holding out on adulthood toys" (Star Wars action figures, Muppet collectibles, the Magic 8 Ball, anything from the JFK Street level of Urban Outfitters), and "sexually suggestive paraphrenalia" (massage oil, Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World, whips, handcuffs). Invite the person to sit down on the bed with you so that they can get a good look at your stuff, and let the good times roll...
...water in tidal-wave volumes was sloshing over the banks of the Rhine and other major rivers, drowning vast stretches of northwestern Europe. In a week when happiness was a dry attic, a crow flying over the countryside would have needed not only its own rations but pontoon landing gear. Torrential rains had combined with unseasonable melting of Alpine snows to surcharge waterways funneling into the Low Countries. Though the Dutch remained mostly dry, the largest evacuation ever mobilized in the Netherlands cleared 250,000 people from their homes in Gelderland and Limburg, two southern provinces where...