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...while ad pages are plummeting for all magazines, they're flirting with terminal velocity for business titles. The numbers are enough to make a CEO pack it all in (which Jim Spanfeller at Forbes.com just did). In the first half of this year, Business Week ran about 37% fewer ad pages than it did in the first half of last year, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. Fortune, published by Time Inc. (owner of TIME.com), sold 38% fewer pages, and Forbes was down 30% (a number possibly skewed by the inclusion of ForbesLife). But as a weekly, the McGraw-Hill...
Muszynski, Josh • dismay of after checking bank account online and finding that use of debit card by to purchase a pack of cigarettes resulted in a charge of more than $23 quadrillion...
...intrepidly moseyed down my street, eager to greet my lonely bed. In the distance, I spotted a pack of wild dogs across the road. Yet again, this would petrify a rookie of Chile. But I’ve witnessed neighborhood strays togged up in tartan vests (though these nude mutts obviously were not aware that plaid is back). Homeless dogs here don’t badger you. They don’t really move, even. Excessive motion does pill cashmere, after...
...Public Theater representative yells: "That's the end, right there." No chance for tickets, now. A crowd of people—including us—shrug shoulders and kick the dirt. Most pack up, disperse. Jun spots a friend and I encourage her to wrangle his extra ticket. Hey, it's a tough world and the lone wolf survives. No luck...
Anyone who ever saw Alexis Arguello slug out a 13-round victory in the boxing ring knows he had the heart of a giant - too big, it seemed, to fit inside his skinny, 130-pound frame, which could pack a punch like a mule kick. Revered as the "Explosive Thin Man" and the "Gentleman of the Ring," Arguello - who committed suicide with a bullet to his heart on July 1 - was a champion like few others before him or after. Even on the rare occasion that he lost (he won 82 of his 90 career bouts), he gave an epic...