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...full free day, what would you do with it? -Susan Watkins, Forth Worth, TexasPretty much what I do at work: I cook, I travel, I love watching films, I love writing recipes. It's truly a joy. I love writing in general and I'm a huge film buff so I like to catch up with some movies, and I like to eat and sleep a lot [laughs]. I either do absolutely nothing, or do what I do for a living. Or I might jump out of an airplane. I do enjoy that...
...kudzu, just seems to grow and grow, especially in the U.S., where sales have expanded 35% since 2002. Russians still account for nearly half of the 1.22 billion gal. (4.6 billion liters) consumed annually, but the rest of the world is catching up fast, and global growth prospects are huge, especially for so-called premium vodkas. "There was no way that an ambitious company like Pernod Ricard could pass up an opportunity to acquire Absolut, even though it has cost them dear," says senior drinks company analyst Jeremy Cunnington of Euromonitor International...
...once vowing to take public money, he now calls his online fund-raising machine a "parallel public-financing system," which is convenient because it has no upper limit "He's got an incredible small-dollar operation," observes Charlie Black, a senior adviser to the McCain campaign. "That's a huge advantage for them...
...classic"--i.e., old and canceled--shows (Adam-12? Alfred Hitchcock Presents? Airwolf?) and a random, sometimes startling collection of movies (Point Break! The Big Lebowski! End of Days!). No wonder Hulu has reportedly already sold its entire advertising inventory. It's depressing to live in a world in which huge, faceless corporations can do something right...
...Hulu does have huge gaps. You can fill in those gaps two ways. One is with money: Apple's pay-per-download iTunes store has a wider selection of TV shows and movies than Hulu, as does Amazon's Unbox service. Two is with your immortal soul: you can download all this stuff for free, illegally, via LimeWire, BitTorrent and lots of other file-sharing systems...