Word: smalling
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...free to payers, and Billpoint is currently running a promotion that takes $1 off all purchases made with a Visa card. PayPal actually pays you $5 to open an account and another $5 for each friend you refer. Both services make their money by charging the seller a small fixed fee and a percentage of the total dollar amount sent on each transaction...
PayPal and Billpoint are a great way to make payments to individuals and small businesses. But the "killer app" right now seems to be auctions. PayPal is used in an estimated one-fourth of all eBay auctions. And Billpoint, which is partly owned by eBay and seamlessly integrated into its payment system, is used for many more. PayPal's website includes a handy list of ways you might want to use the service, from sending money to kids away at college to "collecting payments from co-workers for office pools." (Wait, aren't there laws about that?) But the truth...
...fact that a small boat was able to maneuver right up to the Cole suggests a mind-boggling lapse of security. Nothing Washington or the Pentagon can say changes that. In a port like Aden, which has been called a "sieve for terrorists," why weren't all boats approaching the Cole searched? Some people should lose their jobs for this lack of security. It cost 17 sailors their life. JOHN D. MARSHALL Honolulu...
...switch to euros would cost the U.N. a small fortune in accounting-paperwork changes. It would also reduce the interest earnings and reparations payments that Iraq is making for damage it caused during the Gulf War, a shortfall the Iraqis would have to make...
Bombay's tiny but influential and prosperous community of Zoroastrians, known around the world as Parsi, is facing a thorny religious problem. The traditional Parsi death rite--the placing of a corpse in a dakhma, a small open-air amphitheater, where it is devoured by birds of prey in about two hours--is threatened...