This One's A Hard Bargain To Drive
Illawarra Mercury
Tuesday January 18, 2000
The person who decides to purchase this vehicle (pictured) won't be driving anywhere fast - at least not until the car is registered.
And if they do choose to drive away in their newly acquired wheels it could be an expensive trip. According to Wollongong police anyone who is caught driving an unregistered car will face an $826 fine - in this case more than the value of the car.
Think of all the time you spend clicking aimlessly on the World Wide Web.
At the Hunger Site - www.thehungersite.com/index.html - one click can help save a starving child somewhere in the world.
A web site that allows anyone to donate food to the starving without paying sounds too good to be true, but since its start-up in June last year the site has sent enough money to the United Nations' World Food Program to purchase more than four million servings of dietary staples.
Corporate sponsors provide the food in exchange for free advertisements and links.
Visitors to the site will be confronted by a map of the world and a country somewhere flashes black every 3.6 seconds, signifying a death due to hunger - 24,000 people die from starvation daily.
Raymond Hood from Wollongong was surfing the Internet when he stumbled across some interesting statistics: An American organisation, which employs 535 people has had seven employees arrested for fraud, 29 reported for spousal abuse, 19 caught writing bad cheques, 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses, three employees have been charged with assault, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit, 14 were up on drug related charges, eight have been caught shoplifting, and in 1998, 84 were caught driving while under the influence.
Mr Hood thinks the US Senate really should clean up its image!
If you believe men only want one thing from a relationship - well shame on you! Sexual researcher and author Patricia Petersen has discovered that Aussie blokes are really looking for trust from their partners.
While women want care and romance, men's greatest need from a relationship is to be trusted, Ms Petersen writes in her new book Morality, Sexual Facts and Fantasies.
``Men want to be trusted to do the right thing in a relationship." Men also wanted to be trusted that they would be faithful to their partners.
In interviews with more than 1000 Australians, Ms Petersen found there were marked differences between the sexes.
``Women want their male partner to show non-sexual affection by kissing, cuddling, holding hands and fondling, without the man expecting sex," Ms Petersen said.
Women also liked small tokens of appreciation such as flowers or a note, but men did not need these constant reminders.
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