1. How to Enter for Online Play: To enter the "Voices" Video sweepstakes you must visit the "Voices" feature located at National Geographic Online and select the "Contest" option on the main screen. You will be asked to register by providing your name and e-mail address. All registration information requested must be completed and submitted for the registration to be valid. When you register, your information will be electronically stored and entered into the sweepstakes drawing. It will be strictly confidential. The sweepstakes begins November 17, 1998, and ends May 17, 1999. Each week one entry will be selected at random. No more than one entry per week is accepted. You must be the rightful owner of a dedicated e-mail address in order to participate online.

2. How to Enter by Mail: You may also enter the sweepstakes by hand printing your name, address, and telephone number on a 3x5 card and mailing it to Sweepstakes Entry, "Voices" Video Contest, P.O. Box 98257, Washington, D.C. 20090-8257. No prior registration is required in order to enter by mail. Mail entries must be postmarked by May 17, 1999, and received by May 21, 1999. National Geographic Interactive (NGE, Inc.) is the sponsor of the sweepstakes. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, or postage-due entries.

3. Winner Selection, Weekly Drawing: A random drawing will be held weekly (Mondays) from among all eligible online and mail entries received that week. Drawings will be conducted by Sponsor, whose decisions are final. All prizes will be awarded. Winners will be notified by e-mail. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

4. Prizes and Approximate Retail Values: Weekly winners will receive a National Geographic Video (retail value $19.95). No substitutions or transfers of prize permitted, except the sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value in the event that an advertised prize is unavailable. All taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winner.

5. Eligibility: This contest is open only to legal residents of the United States who are 18 years of age or older at the time of registration or playing with permission of a parent or legal guardian. Employees of the Sponsor and its affiliates, their subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, and their family members and/or those living in the same household are not eligible.

6. General Conditions: This sweepstakes is subject to the laws of the United States. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. All prizewinners must execute an Affidavit of Eligibility/Release of Liability/Prize Acceptance Form within 15 days of attempted notification. In the event of noncompliance within this time period, an alternate winner may be selected. Return of any prize/prize notification may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission to use winner’s names and likenesses, including photograph, for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law. Entrants grant to Sponsor and its affiliates, the right to use and publish their public name in connection with this contest.

Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. Sponsor is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail entry to be received by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this contest. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A CONTESTANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE GAME IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH CONTESTANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel the contest if it becomes technically corrupted.

7. Winners List: The names of the prizewinners will be posted on or about May 31, 1999, on National Geographic Online and may also be obtained after May 31, 1999, by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Sweepstakes Winners List, Voices Video Contest, P.O. Box 98257, Washington, D.C. 20090-8257.

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