Page 8 - The Behrend College Beacon - Thursday, February 25, /V 99 Website of the week by Mike Frawley assistant editor One website that has been taking the internet community by storm lately is EBay Auction Web. As the name sug- gests this site is an online auction to buy and sell all most anything you could possibly think of. Mark McGwire’s 70th home run baseball was put up on EBay for bids, along with other major luxury items such as a car used in an early lames Bond movie. Now while items like this would be great if you have a few mil lion extra dollars laying around, what can it do for the average Behrend stu dent with Hale or no exha money? ACROSS 1 _ New Guinea 6 Gremlins 10 Train to box 14 Originate 15 Roman tyrant 16 Fast-food option 17 Stimulates to action 19 Gumbo veggie 20 London W.C. 21 Greased up 22 Contemptuous expression 23 Soprano Renata 25 Surrenders by treaty 26 Asian capital 28 Eliz. Il’s son 30 Cold War divider 34 Lower digit 37 Hawaiian garlands 38 “Lamia” poet 39 Expose 40 Sculling instrument 41 Part of E.T. 43 Prescribed amount 44 Corridors 45 City west of Venice 48 Astounding 52 Spiral-homed antelope 53 Eateiy 54 Religious dread 57 Hit on the head 58 St. Paul resident 60 Fairy-tale opener 61 Early Peruvian 62 Prevailing tide 63 Future plant 64 Lifetimes 65 Affirmative responses DOWN 1 Jack’s tote 2 Pisa’s river 3 Dark wine 4 Function 5 Like efficient exercise 6 Total 7 Doled (out) First, after you regester with EBay (a relatively painless process which should take you about five minutes or s 6), you can sell items yourself. Ev eryone has some old piece of junk lay ing around collecting dust that you just don't want to throw away because itcould be worth something someday. Well today is the day to sell it and make youself a few extra bucks. While EBay does charge a small list ing fee (as low as $.25 in some cases) and 5% of the price the item goes for, ©1999 Tribune Media Services, Inc, All rights reserved. 8 Imply 9 Signal for help 10 Rocks 11 Jabbed 12 See eye to eye 13 Serengeti plaints 18 By way of 22 Glance over 24 Millennia 26 Hawaiian city 27 Neighborhood 29 Sibilant sound 31 Hawaiian instruments 32 Studying for finals 33 Black goo 34 Follows too closely 35 Spoken 36 Sea shockers 39 Husk of grain 41 Ugly character 42 Dry 43 Immersed 45 Rio Grande feeder you still end up making a tidy profit 1 off of something that was just collect ing dust, But, now what do you do with your < new found wealth. EBay has an an swer for that too, buy something your- ; self off of EBay, EBay has thousands ' of eatagories of items, selling every- > thing from Beanie Babies to ATV’s ’ - to Video Games, it has something to , - fit everyones taste. All you do is find the item your looking for, fill out the Unchallenged Sock hop Chop into tiny bits Quindlen and Paquin Last letter Grow less 51 55 Features ‘■r~ 2/25/99 Comes to a conclusion Farrow of “Rosemary’s Baby" Galena or mispickel before you buy it and you won’t be disappointed. So good luck and , h ‘"' The Beacon will feature a different website each week. Clockwise from front left are Amy Vay, Leo Hanley, Bethany Cummings and David Sonney, cast membi in the Studio Theatre production of The Visit, a dark story of mystery and corruption. The play will performed Feb. 25, 26 and 27 at 8 p.m„ and Sunday, Feb 28 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for the production are for students and $5 for general admission. For reservations, call the Studio Theatre box office at (814) 8! 6016. Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage plays Tom Welles, who drift: away from his simple life as a family man and small-time private inves tigator when he tries to determine the whereabouts of a runaway girl ii the Columbia Pictures presentation, Eight Millimeter. Look for a re view in next week's issue of The Beacon.
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