"I Found Her on eBay!" (on the modernization of the mail-order-bride business) by Paul Dyer

Natashaclub.com offers today's consumers the ability to compare goods and prices in the convenience of their own homes. Shoppers can view pictures of their potential purchases, and with a credit card, check, cash, or money, they can buy themselves a "true love, romance partner, or penpal girlfriend."

Searching For the Sniper: when is profiling appropriate? by Travis Lee

After the tritely named "Beltway Sniper" claimed his ninth victim in the string of shootings throughout suburban DC, some witnesses reported seeing an "olive-skinned man" fleeing the scene in the ubiquitous white van. Of course the context of these post-September 11 times had already driven the media, in all its wisdom and thoroughness, to speculate of a dastardly Al Queda connection.