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...Frank, editor of the monthly magazine Card Technology, says, "People don't think of cash as being difficult." The world's leading cash-card company, Mondex International, controlled by MasterCard, has had so-so success in experiments in Canada. In the U.S., Visa tried launching a cash card in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. It flopped, partly because users had to run all over town to find stores that could accept the cards. That's why more than 94% of all transactions are still done in cash or check...
...Atlanta-based Hooters of America employs 10,000 "Hooters Girls," young women the chain describes as "the surfer girls next door." Got up in orange short-shorts and tight-fitting tops, they earn $2.13 an hour plus tips dispensing food, drink and cheerleader charm at the company's 204 restaurants in 40 states and five foreign countries. Last year the chain, which is privately held, brought in revenues of $325 million...
...copious notes in Justice lectures, some of us wandered the Yard for hours, looking for "that party in Greenough, or maybe Stoughton, I'm not sure," some of us even ate the Kung Pao chicken in Annenberg. Mine was introducing myself as a Yankees fan(atic) to someone from Atlanta...
Meaningless statistic of the week: The last time Atlanta lost the opening game of a National League Championship Series ? to Philadelphia in 1993 ? they also lost the series. Normally, this wouldn't worry Braves fans. But throw in the fact that they are playing a Florida Marlins team that gave them fits during the regular season, and there was a lot more than Georgia on the minds of the 49,000-plus at Turner Field last night. The Braves kicked the ball around like a little league team as Atlanta lost 5-3 to the Marlins even though Braves starter...
...from murder suspect Luke Woodham: "I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society push us and we will push back." Another explanation might lie in the boredom of teen small-town life, says TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe...