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...wasn't about goodwill for the community," says Frank Bergman, mayor of Cahokia, Ill. "This was about making money." USAgain claims it has never presented itself as a charity. "We communicate at the boxes that this is a company," says Poul Jorgensen, who heads the firm's operations in Atlanta, Dallas and New York City. But that communication is often solely through the tiny .com in the Web address...
DIED. LESTER MADDOX, 87, flamboyant restaurant owner turned segregationist Georgia Governor; in Atlanta. Maddox, who as Governor was prone to stunts like riding on the hood of a car to announce a new stretch of highway, gained local notoriety by loudly refusing to serve three black Georgia Tech students in his Pickrick Restaurant in the wake of the newly signed Civil Rights Act--and by distributing ax handles to patrons as symbols of defiance. A frequent target of newspaper caricatures, the former soda jerk never apologized for his positions, saying in 2001, "I want my race preserved. I think forced...
Steve Baer, 48, is fed up with his cell-phone service. When the advertising executive moved to Atlanta six months ago, he considered switching from AT&T Wireless to a carrier with better coverage in the neighborhood where he lives. But there was one thing holding him back: he didn't want to give up his number...
...mummies are related--and prove that the arm and the mummy belong together--were forbidden by the Egyptian government. "It's very difficult to identify a mummy with a particular person, especially without DNA," says Peter Lacovara, curator of ancient Egyptian art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. "And as for the arm being flexed, a lot can happen when bodies are thrown around the room...
...whole day. Ikea, which doubled its number of checkout stands when it recently moved a store from King of Prussia, Pa., to bigger quarters in nearby Conshohocken, is looking even further ahead to a roving pre-checkout system, using wireless technology for mobile cashiers. Home Depot, based in Atlanta, recently invested heavily in self-checkout technology, which should be fully online by this summer. A cash outlay isn't the only answer or even the best one. Jim Dion notes that in the Midwest, Jewel grocery stores, a division of Albertson's, have their cashiers circle the preferred-customer savings...