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It might have just caught up to you: a nearly empty bank account.
And with exams lingering around the corner and rearing their ugly heads, you might not have time to pick up an extra job. Here are a few tips for surviving on meager funds without abandoning your social life or standard of living.
Food
Buy all food for the week ahead of time at stores such as Food Lion.
A box of oatmeal will last you 10 mornings. A loaf of bread and a packet of cheese will, depending on how many slices of bread there are, last at least four days (if you eat one sandwich for lunch, one for dinner). Buy a large bag of chips to accompany your daily sandwiches, and limit drinks to bottles of water, which you can refill at any water fountain.
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) Tangled cord? It's not just an aggravation, it's science
The recent news that Apple dropped the price of its 1GB iPod Shuffle to $49 may boost sales. But if it does, it might also boost frustration as people find the cords of their earbuds twisted into more knots than you find in an average day at the pretzel factory.
There's a reason for that.
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) APPLE VERSUS APPLE
Apple Inc. is trying to take a bite out of the Big Apple.The makers of the Macintosh and the iPod have gone to war against the city's business promotion office, to stop them from registering an official logo that features the image of an apple.
The computer cor poration claims that NYC & Co. is not thinking differently enough with its ap ple-style icon, and that it tramples on the trademark of Apple's famous logo.
"[The city's] marks are very similar to opposer Apple's marks in appearance [and] commercial impression," the company's lawyers wrote in their objection, now pending with trademark authorities.
The NYC & Co. apple logo is to be used in brochures, booklets and teaching materials promoting the city's "environmentally friendly" policies, according to the original trademark application filed by the group in May 2007. More>>