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...prize for "best packaging of a candidate" must be awarded to Ralph Nader (Gore supporters, get out the voodoo dolls), whose huge success (comparatively speaking) can undoubtedly be ascribed to his ability to tap into the aggregate pre-existing consumer consciousness by mimicking ads from Mastercard and Monster.com. The former has a tagline that includes "Campaign ads filled with half-truths: $10 million. Finding out the truth: priceless"; the latter shows a succession of adorable children proclaiming: "When I grow up, I want the government to have the same problems it has today. I want to vote for the lesser...
Acela will offer passengers roomier seats, beer on tap and midtown-to-midtown travel at $120 to $143 one-way in coach. Gone are the dreary, cargo-like conditions inside. Thin slits of glass that once shut out the light have been replaced by oversize windows, and the tiny, smelly toilets have been transformed into spacious, bright rest rooms. Still, creaky infrastructure will prevent Acela from reaching its top speed most of the trip, but it should cruise consistently at around 100 to 120 m.p.h., more than enough, in Amtrak's mind, to change people's travel habits...
Touchpoint 3000 LG INFOCOMM, $400 Seamlessly combines mobile phone, address book and organizer. Tap someone's name, and it dials...
Over the last 10 years this theory has been born out in the press. The great chicken scandal of '99 was only the latest in a series of disturbing events in the history of final clubs. The same year that the Skull and Bones club of Yale decided to tap women into its secret society, Harvard's now-defunct Pi Eta club was settling a 1988 alleged rape suit. In 1991 final clubs voted to adopt the College alcohol policy; three days later three clubs broke it. Later that same year Pi Eta closed forever, two rapes allegedly having taken...
Scour.com was founded in 1997 by five students at the University of California at Los Angeles. Within a year, the company attempted to tap into the growing popularity of the MP3 music format by developing a multimedia search engine...