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February 14, 2005, 12:48 pm
Goodbye, work study. Hello, eBay.
Cash-strapped college students are using the popular online auction site to raise money—even when it seems they don’t have anything valuable to sell. Andrew Fischer, a student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, sold ad space on his forehead for a whopping $37,375 last week. For a month, Mr. Fischer will emblazon the logo for SnoreStop, a sleep aid, on his head in the form of a temporary tattoo.
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