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VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL 1 dozen long stem vase ready roses *49.99 Rose prices starting at '4.'” We have lots of valentine gift ideas! •Plants •Stuffed animals by Gundt •Trapp candles Located in a kiosk at Post Oak Mall (near Beall s) 693-1570 Weekdays 10-9 Sunday 1 0-6 We Deliver ! NEWS Page 8 THE BATTALION Web offers money for scholarships Paint it black BOSTON (AP) — An Internet site to be launched Thursday is promising to give away $ 10,000 a day in college schol arship money. No essay required. No nerve-wracking interview. Just the luck of the draw. The folks at FreeScholarships.com know the sweepstakes may sound too good to be true. But it's the latest of a host of Websites handing out millions to Web surfers willing to tell marketers about themselves. The scholarships from the new Cam- bridge-based company are financed large ly by marketers and advertisers who are particularly keen on the teen-age and 20- something markets. And the incentives for coughing up demographic information are great. FreeScholarships plans to award an ad ditional $25,000 every month and $50,000 each quarter, in addition to the daily giveaway of $10,000. The money is available for college, graduate school, even private school for children. College grads with loans to pay otTare also eligible, as are parents plan ning for future college bills. Winners need only be U.S. citizens over 13. The Website sounds well-intentioned enough, said Mark Cannon, deputy ex ecutive director ol'the National Associa tion for College Admission Counseling, which represents guidance counselors and admissions officers. Still, he said, "You don't need to be a sweepstakes winner to afford college.” To ensure the money goes to school and not a new car or vacation, the com pany will send the check directly to the college, bank or other lending program, said Chuck Digate, the company's founder. Site visitors must register to be eligi ble. Visitors cam more chances by play ing games, answering surveys and polls, referring friends and clicking on ads. Winners, chosen by a computer-gen erated random drawing, can win more than once. The odds of hitting the jackpot depend on how many log on. "It’s a low-energy path for people to get a shot at helping them pay for school," Digate said. STUART VILLANUEVA"! Juan A. Reyes. ,i painter from HEB Construction, puts a 1 coat of paint on the Texas Avenue Freebirds Wednesday. A& M coac at a press Agricultural grant awarded to area busine ;;Un T\ AUSTIN (AP) —The Texas Depart ment of Agriculture awarded financial grants Wednesday for a series of promo tions — everything from selling more maroon carrots to teaching Polish chefs how to serve beef in Texas-stylc dishes. Eleven projects, totaling $220,000, were the first to receive matching funds under a new Go Texan Partner Program created by the 1999 Legislature to boost sales of agricultural products and commodities. Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs said the program offers some good news to farmers and ranchers cop- "This is a positive sign that Texas agriculture is alive, [anti] well..." it to the T< — Susan Combs Texas Agricultural Commissioner luen call dropp and nan ing w ilh the third drought in foui "This is a positive sign that Texas agri culture is alive, well and taking olfin ex- J&D I take a froduci $29 9* Edinbun markets k*r maroon carrotsdottf levav \&M l nivcTMtvV provement center. The caw ' A Mi'll ' Ul lar carrots. A' A. AJicrc Other grants: and as usual Bra/os t ountry focc -R.C Slocun Sin,iKK). t.»i recipe cards®, another solii tcM.ih promoting Rcdl ycBa. Aggies. All Mix .is a cookmc mcrcdicr.: been tilled a Douget's Rice Mill . -another top- mont. $30,000, for in-'!.: signed, seak tions to increase rice sale- and on its u and West Texas thing is nice Veil, in l ."Not so fast Despite t there were s. 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