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Digital-video (DV) camera prices are plummeting south toward the $1,000 border. Cheap DV-ready PCs, bundled with professional-editing software, are zooming off store shelves. And a host of popular production websites have sprung up to showcase amateur movie shorts. All of which has led experts to believe we're in for a DV Christmas. "There's a demand for video editing among consumers if it can be done easily and elegantly," says Kevin Hause, an analyst at International Data Corp. "When you look at what that takes in terms of computer speed and power, we're there...
...priority, Congress passed a landmark law to give homeless people a variety of housing, health-care and job programs. In 1986 an outpouring of almost 6 million people locked hands to form a 4,152-mile human chain, Hands Across America, to raise some $15 million for the cause. Popular concern about the homeless eased in recent years as the economy boomed, but the stubborn visibility of the problem--coupled with high-profile incidents like the warehouse blaze in Worcester, Mass., in which a homeless couple allegedly set a fire by accident that killed six fire fighters--has once again...
Indeed, tea has become so popular that it's growing beyond the pot and showing up in everything from cosmetics to candles. Avon has a supersize tea bag for the tub; Kiehl's uses it in makeup, Clairol in hair mousse. The hipster set is buying Red Flower candle and tea sets. In August, Elizabeth Arden launched its Green Tea fragrance and body line. Upscale apothecaries stock Tea Thymes home and bath products, while mass-market drugstores are moving Coty's hit, Healing Garden's green-tea line...
More than 20 million shares of Yahoo had to be purchased by the funds that run billions of dollars mimicking the S&P 500. This incredibly popular method of indexing creates instant value overnight in a way that a takeover or a restructuring or an earnings surprise can never produce...
...HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling. The third installment of this phenomenally popular series takes its now teenage hero through another year of his education in the ways of wizardry. Once again, Harry must face a mortal threat, but not before he and his friends get into lively boarding-school scrapes. Children can't get enough of Harry, and neither can their parents...