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...travel agency and the price of the tour. It is best to tell the agency of any special restaurants one wants to visit so that arrangements can be made. In addition, individuals or small groups can go off to restaurants on their own, although because of the language barrier it is best to have the hotel or tour guide engage a taxi and call the restaurant. Even so, reservations may not be honored unless a deposit or, at times, the full price of the meal has been paid in advance...
...next barrier to my rest was the methodically beeping noise that emanated from an machine which, as far as anyone there knew, served no purpose other than to keep me awake. I asked them to turn it off, and was stunned to find that there was no rule against this. I guess they were confident that they had enough other rules which would keep me awake without having to worry about the extra assurance of a beep machine...
...excuse me?" Distracted from my smooshing, I look up across the multicolored barrier of goody boxes and smeared glass countertop. My customer coughs again. "Uh, I wanted Heath bar, not Reeses, if that's okay?" Stifling an urge to scoop his eyes out and fling them into the goody pile, I glance down at the smoosh-in board. Sure enough, my--his--glob of cinnamon-nutmeg is sprinkled with the wrong damn goody...
...energy loss; practical versions of trains that "fly" ) just above their tracks at hundreds of miles an hour, cushioned on magnetic fields; more widespread use of magnetic resonance imaging machines, which take sharp pictures of the soft tissues of the body. Says Northwestern University Physicist Arthur Freeman: "A barrier has been broken. It's exciting for the physics community and for mankind as a whole...
...hard-luck Mexicans, 1987 is already a year that many would like to forget. Last week the peso crashed through the once unthinkable barrier of 1,000 to the dollar, a sharp signal of plummeting confidence in the country at home and abroad. Foreign banks have balked at extending new loans to keep the economy afloat. To make matters worse, with national elections 18 months away, the scramble to succeed President Miguel de la Madrid threatens to paralyze his government until a new President is chosen...