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...credit card designed to look like a cassette tape. ATMs are placed in locations where twentysomethings work, such as outside call centers. The bank is even targeting the under-18 crowd with a special debit card that allows kids to withdraw money from ATMs--with a spending limit imposed by their parents--and get discounts at McDonald's and Pizza Hut. "The young generation is changing the consumer-financing landscape," says Sarvesh Sarup, Citibank's chief of consumer banking in Bombay. "Targeting of that segment is very, very critical...
...vision miles out in front (as pilots do), to the hypersensitivity of the car, to movements of the wheel and the wind noise. I hit 120 when my co-pilot, Andy Monheiser, reminded me to slow down, since we were in danger of exceeding our self-imposed speed limit...
...Dodge Charger the 800 miles back home to Seattle, Mike Nordin had exactly the same reaction. "It was thrilling, and though it was my first race, it won't be my last. I'm already thinking about the next one." Me too--and maybe without that self-imposed speed limit...
...predicting elections. Similar markets have been useful in predicting oil prices and ticket sales. The theory is simple: when people have something at stake, they act on their deepest convictions, which generates the most accurate information. The market is restricted to a few hundred experts with a modest investment limit. Allowing CIA, State Department and Pentagon authorities to wager their own money on a terrorist strike would quickly aggregate their wisdom and perhaps provide leads. Meanwhile, there's collateral damage. Sources tell TIME that a prototype market for health officials to wager on a SARS outbreak--to help pinpoint...
...Please limit your responses to 80 words or less. The best entries reflecting the balance of opinions expressed will be published on TIME.com throughout the week...