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...palatial condo you bargained for could turn out to be a weed-bound motel. Because that actually happened to William Rogers, he created a Timeshare Users Group website www.tug2.net) which now has more than 3,000 members who rate their shares via chat room and bulletin board. And even if you find the share of your dreams, "the trading is not all that easy, because you can't get the places during the times you want," cautions Joan Bennett of Indianapolis, Ind., who with her husband Dick owns a 13-week share in Hilton Head. "To be sure of getting...
Frankel's traveling companions eventually began to fall away, disillusioned with life on the lam, leaving Allison and him at the sparsely furnished Via Asmara apartments. "Marty used to ask me where we should go," Allison says. "He began to realize how small the world really is when everyone is looking...
...fight to win the vote for women was actually a kind of religious movement. Theorist Stanton and tactician Anthony transposed an evangelical fervor into a social one, moving, via moral causes like temperance (embraced by proto-feminists to stop domestic abuse), to a lifelong devotion to women's liberty and the vote, an objective neither lived to see achieved. The four-hour double profile does well by focusing a decades-long movement on this symbiotic friendship...
FRONT-SEAT DRIVER For the past 14 months, Progressive, the country's fifth-largest auto insurer, has been testing an optional pay-as-you-go system in Texas, using black boxes to track drivers' activity, including when and where they are going, via satellite. Monthly invoices are based on actual usage--the less you drive, the less you pay--and so far, Houston drivers have saved an average of 25% on their premiums. Progressive plans to launch the program in other states in the near future. Privacy advocates are concerned that despite safeguards, the information could by used against...
...witnessing the early days of a wired revolution in medicine. The Web has shattered the physician's tightly held monopoly on information. Specialists are starting to provide consultations via the Internet. Some doctors are experimenting with computer programs that monitor how often an asthmatic refills a prescription, alerting them when the pattern indicates that stronger medicines are needed to head off a more serious attack...