Word: using
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...studios, though; they're actually going on a pitch meeting to the website Shockwave.com "In Hollywood right now, if you take a section of the [Interstate] 405 and freeze-frame it," Stark says, "everybody is in their car scratching their chins and thinking the same thing: 'How can I use the Internet to my advantage...
...this year was done not by the big studios but by websites that show short, downloadable films, hoping to be the online Miramax or, better yet, to be bought by Miramax. Throughout the weeklong event, AtomFilms.com drove a slow-moving RV equipped with a television for aspiring directors to use to screen their short films, in the hope of getting purchased by the site. Bad films were dropped off at the end of Main Street, like some chase-scene version of The Gong Show...
...video cameras weren't scary enough, now they had to worry about those thick, broadband cables carrying big entertainment to PCs on demand. Even more threatening is the probability that AOL, by far the biggest Internet player that sends monthly bills to its customers, will charge micro fees to use the Web to watch movies or listen to music. That means it will be able to do something that many have tried to do online: make money, possibly tons of it, by selling content...
...study of more than 44,000 families by the Urban Institute shows that about a third of them lash together at least two child-care arrangements (8% of families use three or more), including day-care centers, sitters, neighbors, friends and family. Sound familiar? This patchwork is difficult enough for 9-to-5 workers, but in an economy in which more and more businesses work 24/7, parents who work "nonstandard" hours and weekends have an even harder time finding acceptable child care. Any family facing the child-care crunch knows there will be times when the patches don't hold...
...course, most women take estrogen (Premarin is the most popular brand) for just a few years through menopause. Nothing in the latest studies suggests that they should stop. The dilemma is over long-term use, which has been proved to prevent osteoporosis, and does wonders for skin tone as well. Unfortunately, over the years, hormone-replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer. Many doctors and patients have been willing to take that risk because it seemed there were substantial benefits to the heart...