Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.

By making a wide array of AT&T's communications services available from the most heavily trafficked site on the Internet, we are also taking full advantage of the Web's power as a medium for marketing, distribution and customer service. Our trial of a new Internet-based service will essentially voice-enable Yahoo! Chat, bringing a new dimension in communications to the wealth of resources already there.

But if you're handy with that sort of thing, it might be a pretty good deal at $10.

a wide array of people over the last several months.

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.