Enron, on the other hand, may disappear forever as its collection of energy assets and trading contracts are gradually cleaned up and sold to others.

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Every time someone decides to stop receiving a paper bill, 24 pieces of First Class mail per year disappear forever (the bill, and the payment, each 12 times per year).

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After a single viewing, those videos then disappear forever.

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Every day, parts of this memory disappear forever.

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But many should disappear forever.

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After sending them to friends, those photos then disappear, forever, in 1-10 seconds.

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It would be a mobile app, he explained, where friends could share photos that would disappear forever in a matter of seconds.

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Folks have seen jobs you thought would last forever disappear.

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Which is why I go through them box by box, paper by paper, and run them through my cross-cut shredder so that they forever disappear from the universe of useable data.

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The phaseout won't be completed until 2006 or so, but for the second time in the past decade the once-famous marque will disappear, possibly this time forever.

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