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...highlights of his posting was the day Fidel Castro introduced him to cigars. It was in September 1972, he recalls, at a trade fair in Santiago. The Cuban exhibitors needed refrigerators for their shrimp. Brabeck lent them some. When the fair opened, Castro came over with a box of smokes to say thank you. But the Cuban leader's biggest gift, Brabeck says, was to warn Allende of the problems Cuba had encountered when it nationalized milk. That gave Nestle valuable breathing space...
...party organizers have been very satisfied with the results, both aesthetically and in terms of Shiftee’s marketing potential. He has DJ’d several House formals and the last two iterations of Mather Lather, where he was sequestered in a lather-proof box...
Once Lynn Huffman lifted his new modem out of the box, it took less than a minute to get online at the computer he keeps in the den. And it took just a few minutes more for Huffman, a retired great-grandpa who recently discovered e-mail, to decide that his new high-speed Internet service was fast, simple to set up and, best of all, cheap. At $26.95 a month, it beats the $42.95 a month he would have had to pay to get broadband from his cable company...
...Huffman taps into his new fast pipe through a wall socket--any old socket in the house will do. "Now if I could just figure out a way to get rid of all these pop-up ads," he says, settling down to clean the spam out of his In box...
Piracy is also crippling the local film and music industries. Employment at music-production studios has dropped a third since 1996, and many artists are holding back new releases until their rights are protected. Malaysian filmmakers released seven movies last year, compared with 18 in 1995, and box-office receipts are down 49% over the past two years. CD pirates "are like leeches, sucking the life out of the film industry," reports the Video and Film Industry Association of Malaysia...